we are not building enough ships to do what we needed to do. we have put in plants to congress. we have been implementing those plans on year to year basis to stabilize the size of the fleets and overtime began to grow that fleet. we have the ships in the navy that we need to be a global force. we have the ships we need to execute the strategy. we have the ships in the people to do everything we need to do for america. i talked to captain and strike groups before they go out. the only thing that a certain when you go to see is that you will pay something unanticipated. you have to rely on the training, innovation, skills to meet itit. we can meet anything that comes over the horizon this administration has been. another thing he said was that the united states navy was in the best shape it has ever been. we are committed to keeping that spirit we are committed to stabilizing the fleet in -- we're committed to keeping that. we are committed to stabilizing the fleet. >> what is the chain of command? you don't have direct access to the president? >> in the law, it is an anomaly. it

we've got to do a better job. we're right on this issue. we're right on these principles. this whole argument with hhs, it's a first amendment issue. don't let anyone tell you it's anything but a first amendment issue and an assault on our first amendment rights. but we've got to do a better job. >> you spoke about being from -- being a conservative in new york. what do you hear from your constituents about how they view what has happened in the last year? we know what the media says. but what are your constituents saying to you, to each of you, and what do you hear from your colleagues? your freshmen colleagues in terms of what they're hearing from their folks back home? >> well, i think, and again, this is because of the media and because of our opposition is so much louder than we are, i think more people in america think like you do. and in my district, which was a "d" plus 3 district on paper. but i think more americans understand the fundamentals about this nation. they have that sense that things just aren't

not to get out of control. this is -- i do not honestly think this is going to cause any company to move its headquarters to san francisco. i do think it will encourage local companies, lbe's, to adopt the b standard and to move towards it. i think it will encourage others outside of the area that they will be acknowledged for their goodness, but it is not like providing tax credits and things like that, which have an immediate financial benefit to a company, so i regard as more ads encouraging the movement and rewarding those, not to cause any change in where people are located. i think we have established that by simplifying the proposal as stated. clerked -- clerk: and we have a second. president of brian -- o'brien: roll call. clerk: [reading roll] commissioners, and that passes 6 to 0. commissioners, you are now on item number five, general public comment. this would allow members of the public to, and generally on matters within the commission's purview and suggest new agenda items for the commission's future considerati

do you want to change? what are the motivating factors? and actually asking them... there is a reason why you do it, because you get something out of it. it is not all bad. there is a reason why people continue to go back to that drug. so you have to get to that root also. there is a reason why people continue with their particular drug. so empowering a larger group of health care professionals has been our mission, and we hope they will continue to carry it on in their practice and then refer them for treatment. and really sharing the responsibility for the wellness with the patient? correct. obviously it is a very important part. buy-in, absolutely. and it works, too, right? yeah, absolutely. i mean, the research shows that it really works. it does. fran, dr. greene basically told us that within screening and brief interventions there are some referral issues that you tell the patient, "this is where you may get help." what components in a community need to be engaged in support of a program such as screen

, it's not going to be enough. how do we reach more people to get them into nert training, give them the incentives to get them out of their house into training classes? can we require this of businesses, require it as schools, require it as institutions and give them a payback for it? can we give them insurance reductions? can we give them tax breaks? can we give small businesses rebates? if people are trained and certified in nert and stay active, how can we bring people in the training when it does hit we really are ready? because the time we spend now in getting ready and being prepared that will shorten that recovery time in a very great and significant way. >> i would just say we wrestle with getting more people in our community to get involved. we have our drills and it's the people that are engaged that come out to the drills. i don't know about incentives for businesses but i think what we find is when the businesses supporting it you can see it. i can go down the wharf and say

we think that's the right thing to do. we certainly don't want to have the house make and excuse that they are not going to pass this bill because it doesn't cover both ends of pennsylvania avenue. it should. >> cover all federal employees. >> will cover the executive branch. >> thanks, everybody. >> thank you. >>> businessman donald trump is making a political noupsment this afternoon at his hotel in las vegas. earlier today media reports say he intends to endorse mitt romney for the republican presidential bid. we'll have live coverage for that event at 3:30 this afternoon. nevada's caucuses this saturday. c-span will have results. saturday is the start of caucuses in maine. this coming tuesday colorado and minnesota will hold caucuses while missouri has a primary. later in the month arizona and michigan go to the polls on the republican presidential primary followed by washington state in early march. follow the action at c-span.org/campaign2012. >> we as explorers of literature, readers of literature, we have a responsi

we have the plans to do it. if we can put those plans in place and did that last piece, cut the government, i propose a balanced budget. i was fighting for a balanced budget before it was cool to fight for a balanced budget. back in 1995 -- [applause] 1995, we had an opportunity to pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. we came within one vote. most people do not remember that. we came within one vote. i have no doubt it would have passed. it passed the house and we had 15 or 16 democratic senators willing to vote for it. on the last day, the chairman of the appropriations committee, who had been in the senate for 29 years, decided to flip his vote. i had been in the senate for three months, 36 years old, here is this young guy from pennsylvania, was seen as a troublemaker. i just sent to the chairman of the ways and means committee to jail. we were a bad dude coming into the united states senate. i had a reputation for that. i'd better keep my head down because i have this reputation of being a tr

now, i just want to end with this. because i do have -- [ no audio ] i have to leave early because i have to sign the payroll tax cut conference. you raised the issue. the chairman raised the issue. fundamentally we've got to figure out a way to come together to resolve these issues. there are some basic disagreements. we believe it's important in the

we're asking states to do exactly the same thing. we want to give out the messages that we are trying to bring behavioral health into the primary world of health. meaning, and in a much simpler way, bringing substance abuse and mental health issues to the world of physical health. dr. greene, final thoughts? i would like to just say that promoting the community think tanks such as dc rock and other such initiatives that are there to help and provide additional services, they address needs... are a way for us to combine the health care professionals to outside community organizations so we aren't out there alone. there are other people who are working on these initiatives, and we need to combine our efforts. jane, final thoughts? one final thought: i think it's really helpful when communities have people like jordan and wendy, our doctor, involved in these kinds of efforts. it's so essential to have young people become good community problem solvers and its really, really important to have our professionals in the community working on

to $416,000. dolares street is mission neighborhood center. in they do the same thing as all the other collaborative, which is work in the s.r.o's that are there to try to work with the issues that affect us. so it is housing issues. >> they also, if i may, they have major our reach to the swedish-speaking communities where i think most of our our reach is really trying to take organizations that are ready to are reached in these communities that are not english-speaking. >> i understand that, but i was asking so the public would know where the money is going. she is doing a good job of explaining coverage as give her time purit, just give her some . >> when we put the r.f.p. out what was required is you could provide the service, that you were able to link up with the community in that competent way, which means in the same language, understanding the various aspects of the group of people you were working in, that they would meet the units of service that they had to provide. that they're predominantly lived in the community and understood what was in

we are not used to doing that. we are struggling with how to fully take advantage of those. i have been studying that pretty carefully. >> that was a project that required a system. -- assistance. >> that is what we do. >> the yankees always need money. mayor lee, you quoted the tech industry pretty heavily during your campaign. i do not know if it is properly referred to as an election campaign or a reelection campaign. you formed a task advisory committee at that time. i am not clear if they are still in existence, and if they are what advice you are getting from them. >> it is very much in existence. sfcut -- sfcity is a group of 100 technology companies who have formed a new relationship that is almost considered to be a technology chamber of commerce to advise us on a number of things. they set out, consistent with my priorities -- they wanted to start creating not only jobs they are already establishing, but post them in a way which could be reached out to all san franciscans who wanted those jobs. that was the number-one thing they did. the second thing they are hoping

that's a good place to do it. but you always want to do it at the safest location. so if the street is the safest location, that's where you would do it at. this house here fell over. doesn't have something called a sheer wall. so it's just a platform or a platform or a balloon, nothing that keeps the wall from racking, they call it. so you want to make sure that the building that you are in are sheered. this is a connection between the plate, stud and the bottom plate. tie it all together. unreinforced masonry building. safe building or not such a safe building? not safe at all. you have deep set windows, arched windows, metal plate, then we can work. weak morter, what is that? brick on top of brick on top of brick. there's an ample of the header row, you see how they are turned perpendicular to each other, you can see the header rows in this one, see the brick going the other way about every 5 or 7 rows. deep set windows. here's a close up of one of those plates. a parapet wall is a clue that this building is an unreinforced building. which direction can that build

we are supporting them in the efforts to do so. i think that we have got a chance here to respond to their positive attitude and bring dividends in how they develop, but our own standing and leadership and reintegrating into civilian and into the security services is the biggest challenge. we are working with them on trying to help with the wounded warriors something that is important to several members of the senate. the people in libya seem to be optimistic about how things are going, but it's they are working as part r hard as they can and it's in our interest to support them. with respect to syria, it's a more difficult set of circumstances. i am working for a meeting where about 70 countries and organizations were present. the potential of supporting the assistance they need and ratc t ratcheting up pressure and the eu had tougher sanctions yesterday. that's what we are all working on. there was a debate about whether there was a feasible way of trying to help the people who are under assault by the regime to refend themselves.

and we'll continue to do that. what i have found over my years of experience with these types of issues is first off, you have to have a couple of things. you have to have the ability for victims -- some victims do not -- it's about the victims feeling comfortable how they report and who they report to. you have to have a variety of ways for them to report. that's why it's important that we continue to have them, if they want to, not use the chain of command to report and report outside of the chain of command. and we're establishing -- we have established and will continue to emphasize that, if that's what they feel comfortable doing. but it's also important for us to ensure that the chain of command that this is an important issue for morale. it's an important issue for our ability to execute our mission on a day-to-day basis. and it's also important for them to understand and help train them on what is available in the uniform code of military justice and other means in order to hold people accountable. and that

i do not want to create extra work for the department in doing this, if it is going to be helpful to my commissioners. >> this is our first presentation of the budget. there were plenty of slide shows with a little more detail. i might ask that the captain not give us too much detail. we have already been to percentages of supplies and realistic. the bulk of it is personnel and fringe benefits. i think if you would like to have one, they can give you a copy of it. >> we can bring it to your office. whatever you want to do. commissioner kingsley: thank you. i would find that helpful, to see a more traditional line item budget. but just sending it to the commission office is fine. it can come in next week's packet. commissioner turman: i do not think i have any comments that have not been expressed. thank you very much for your hard work. we have no class is budgeted. president mazzucco: this is my fourth budget process. the process always starts this way. we present a certain budget in numbers to the mayor's office and the board of supervisors. through the process, obviously the mayor

what i'm trying to do is have a balance. local 21 would like to mediate -- would like for me to hire as many people as possible and the consultants would like to invest in small liquid businesses. the other big thing is space. we're squeezing in the 525 and other factors are involved. >> you have been trading out old positions that are probably not used anymore. as i look at that, the one exception is there is about six positions that appear to be genuine new positions. they don't show up because you are transferring some folks out. it does appear to be new positions. my question is, given the low workload is decreasing and there are people we value and want to continue as it transitions, are there not opportunities or why are there not opportunities to do that kind of substitution and transfer instead of hiring new positions? >> good question. if we did not transfer 13 positions to another part of the organization, i would do that. i would substitute these positions, but it made sense that those people who have worked on it

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>> it does make sense, but i do not want to waste my time can i do not thave to change hearts ad minds. i do not need to have everybody to be all kumbaya out. .- kumbaya o if you work at changing hearts and minds, you could be at it your whole life and not accomplish anything. you do not have to like me, you can test and not racially every day, but i am the only thing standing between you and the electric chair. we are on the mission to keep you out of the electric chair. we are on a common mission. we do not care about morality. we just do not. i am talking about upper-class african-americans. i am talking about all of the races of the rainbow. our american tapestry. we do not do things for the right reasons. why should i tell my head against that because all -- against that broad wall -- against that brick wall. it is us and them. it is: class. it is class. it is all this complex stuff. but it is us and them. but they can walk in their neighborhood at 11:00 p.m. but they cannot even walk in their neighborhoods. i am not worried about a moral argument. if people do not want to do the

second, i feel that we have to do it in order to protect our economic base. we have to have a strong industrial base that supports the defense department, and for that reason, my instructions are to do everything possible, not only to get obviously better competition and better savings, but to make sure that we keep our industrial base busy serving our needs. >> that is so important because once that industrial base is gone, you never get it back and once those trained workers go on to other fields, you've lost them forever and that would weaken our capabilities. i agree. thank you for that response. thank you mr. sherman. >> thank you. senator hagan. stomachs before mr. chairman and general, mr. panetta and mr. hill, thank you for your service and it is good afternoon now. thank you for your leadership particularly during this time made the ied proliferation is a key concern of mine, and it certainly has been for quite awhile. i support anything that we can do to counter them and obviously protect our troops, and i also support anything we can do to improve

everybody has plenty to do. to the degree this is about hay makers throwing at each other or back at somebody, it's a problem. the guy who would be -- get an advantage from being on the receiving end of the hay maker from santorum and gingrich would be romney. he would have more of the evening and be able to demonstrate more. >> bill: if he could deflect them effectively. look, romney is going to have to define santorum also because santorum is pulling ahead of him. so, romney is going to have to say wait a minute, santorum voted for all of this stuff, all of these earmarks. bridge to nowhere. is he not really going to, you know, be a spender and cut spending because look at his history. as soon as romney goes into those areas, and then santorum has got to come back at him and say, no, he is a phony, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. so i think they are going to have to go after each other. >> yeah, here is the deal. i think you are right that some sparring is necessary on the part of each one of them. the losi

to support it. that's just a reality. how do you make a decision as to what parts of that infrastructure ought to be reduced or changed or at's been been a challenge, as long as i've been in this town. to try to make those decisions. and ultimately, what happened was that have someone developed the brac process as a way to effectively do that by putting all of these decisions in one package and having a up or down vote. i was a part of going through three brac processes. i had installations in my district. and one of those bracs eliminated ft. ord in my district which represented 25% of the local economy. so i know the impact the brac process has. at the same time, we were able to establish a campus at the california of state university system and reuse that area and frankly came out on the better end of the deal. but nevertheless, it's a tough process to go through. and yet, you know, standing back, i can't see a better way to do this other than brac. because if you try to do this on a piecemeal basis, we know what's gong to ha

we would urge you to do the same. is the gentleman planning to bring up the infrastructure bill soon and will it be considered in an open process and does he expect bipartisan cooperation on the infrastructure package so we don't have to go up gaps another deadline. as the gentleman knows, march 31 the highway bill authorization ends. we temporarily included it. let me ends where this before you answer. ray lahood was a leader in this congress. was a leader on your side of the aisle. together a long time. i don't know if you have seen his quote but it bears consideration by your side of the aisle of a republican from middle america, peoria, who your minority leader had as his chief of staff. here is what he said about the was structure bill that marked up. this is the most partisan transportation bill that i have ever seen. and it is also the most antisafety bill i have season. hat is a direct quote from ray lahood, former member of this house and former chief of staff to the minority leader. it hollows out our number

these soldiers to do what they have to do on the battlefield every day? because you know, they see their buddies getting shot, getting killed, getting wounded. and yet they're there the next morning to get on the helicopters to go off on another helicopter assault. there is a special bond when you are with your fellow soldiers going through dangerous things every day. that you want to reach out an care for and protect them and i found that to be the single thing that just makes up the american soldier today. >> i try and tell the kids how many great sacrifices that people have made to give you the freedom and ability to do what you're doing today. how many great men and women have lost their lives. >> freedom didn't come cheap. somebody's got to pay for it. and the live of these people are very precious. a lot of people think that the great thing about the medal of honor is it is awarded by congress and presented by the president. but to me, the real honor of the medal of honor is that a handful of young men who were with you at a difficult time thought yo

anything unless you give me some money to do it. nothing is worth doing unless i am getting paid. >> the problem is the left wing programs have not sold for decades. it is a hard sell to tell kids, it is worth doing. we convinced them an education is worth it, but right now it isn't. >> it will turn into a market place and kids will get was 125, $150. >> and pouring education -- money into education is not a bad thing. who is number one, massachusetts. not exactly a conservative state. >> i think it is a wig thing. >> i believe we have to take a break. do you have a comment on the show? e mail us. it is red eye at fox news.com. to leave a voicemail on my direct line it is 212-462-505 0. still to come, the half time report from tv's andy levy. >> tonight is sponsored by kissing. the act of touching someone or something with the lips. either gently or passionatly. thanks, kissing. blp >>> let's find out if we have anything wrong so far. andy? >> hi, greg, how are you? >> you know. >> employed maywether says -- i can't fake it in i more

could we persuade you to do that? >> you don't have to persuade me. we are doing that. we -- this is one of the reasons why one of our hubs is an energy storage hub. not only for automobiles, but for utility. and we made it very specific. and it's not only batteries, it's compressed air. it's thermal storage. i just talked about how you can use nighttime energy to process heat. sometimes when the wind is blowing, there is nowhere to take that electricity. you can put that into lots of kinds of storage. either hydro storage is something i've been pushing very hard, the bpa to start doing, pump from one dam to another dam so it has minimal, essentially no environmental impact, but it is a form of storage. and we have a target. we know that energy stores at the megawatt and the megawatt hour scale would have incredible applications in the electricity distribution system. it would make our electricity distribution system much more efficient, because all the little ripples. you have a few major generating stations. it goes to distribute out here. you purposely overfill today

they had not been able to do that. they still had nuclear weapons weighing in thousands of pounds so they had to develop a larger booster. when the space program came around to where we're going to send manned spacecraft up, they had an advantage. they could practically put their house up if they wanted to where we could get up just over 4,000 pounds and that was max. to do the "mercury" spacecraft that you see in the hall outside, we were trying to save every pound that we possibly could. it was only a one-person spacecraft. a light structure. they even went with 100% oxygen environment because you could -- that gave you the same oxygen absorption at 27,000 feet at only 5 psi instead of 14.72 like sea level here right now. you went with a lower pressure but with 100% oxygen which let you have the same oxygen intake that we have right here on earth. that way you could build a lighter spacecraft and didn't have to have structure as high because it was only 5 psi instead of higher pressure you want in the vacuum of space.

>> would you accept to do it upon renewal or the submission of a plan and renewal? i mean at the renewal? by the time a lease comes up that the landlord has to submit a play if there is an identified barrier in the front door and the back tore. the entrances and the exits, if they are not compliant, if there is a barrier, would you accept that? >> i think coming up with a plan is tantamount to the same thing. most people don't want to have a building that is not compliant. if they had a choice, they would rather have a compliant billion. there may be a section who just don't bother. but to put it in the form of a plan or saying you have to do the work is tantamount to the same thing to me. >> director? >> again, i want to kind of revoke us back on what our office is doing, working with supervisor chu, and the readily achievable component. we have been going out and talking to businesses to do the inspection because the readily achievable solution is doable. there are doable solutions on the readily achievable come opponent. commissioner o'brien, we can take a role ca

we're going to need to do some work. i still have a whole other marriage to add in and we're running out of time. >> tonight we're going to talk about the inxrenable talent of whitney houston and how the santorum surge is driving republicans crazy, including ann coulter who was for romney before she was against him but now she's for him. again we look at how president obama turned it into a touchdown. we'll talk with whitney's friends, people that loved her and people that made musical magic with her, including the last person who sang with her. >> the name whitney houston joins a long list of thoroughly talented artists who entertained all of us who lived hard and died young. >> whitney houston was discovered in her bathtub by maybe of her personal staff at 3:30 on saturday afternoon. >> though police do say the autopsy is now complete and there's no sign of foul play. >> we are all waiting for the toxicology report to come back. that could take six to eight weeks. >> whitney's body will be flown thoer to her hometown of

people don't want to do it. and again sort of has a recurring theme, you don't really need new people to care about this. there are lots of people who care about this professionally and just because it is what they care about. what those people need is a way of doing work that works for them because what they're doing right now doesn't work and there is more than enough in terms of people and resources to pull this off once folks understand this way in and that is a good thing. i get asked all the time how do you get the white folks to care about that black people and my answer is you are not going to. it is wrong, it is outrageous but so far it is true so we better figure out a way to do this where we don't have to convert everybody and we don't have to convert everybody. >> i was at a city council meeting and it went on longer than i hoped to. so i came in late and heard something, piece of what you said that was interesting to me. i live in public housing in cambridge. was not a dream come true for me. was bec

to harm us. we're not doing that. we're wasting billions of taxpayer dollars and giving them a false sense of security. we're giving them a message that this country is going to be free from having dirty bombs as miss sanchez was talking about. quit wasting the taxpayers' money. it's actually preposterous to continue looking for objects. we need to totally change our focus, whether it's with shipping into our ports, across this country, around the world. we need to start focusing on those who want to harm us. having said that, i've got just a couple of questions. why is there such a lack of specifics in the administration's new national strategy for global supply chain security? anybody? >> the

if we disclose that, that is possible to do. there are a variety of things in this plan that involves spending money on capital that we do not know if they will happen or not. you have seen work on the pipeline dropping by $10 million because when we started we realized that they could not drop as fast. plans changed. we are still trying to figure out how, but i would like to show that we are going to do something to get it down and list what those things might be without causing all of the pain of the most drastic in the operating budget. you have to decide if that is good enough, i guess. >> the tough thing about the repayments from wholesale customers is that that is a decision that we do not get to make. in other areas, i am more comfortable projecting that this is what we will plan to do. that is one where we do not have control. absent a single out -- signal -- >> after the thursday meeting, the immediate reaction was -- how fast can you do it? the question there is, we want to make sure. but we have two years. if they can

we have the plans to do it. if we can put those plans in place and did that last piece, cut the government, i propose a balanced budget. i was fighting for a balanced budget before it was cool to fight for a balanced budget. back in 1995 -- [applause] 1995, we had an opportunity to pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. we came within one vote. most people do not remember that. we came within one vote. i have no doubt it would have passed. it passed the house and we had 15 or 16 democratic senators willing to vote for it. on the last day, the chairman of the appropriations committee, who had been in the senate for 29 years, decided to flip his vote. i had been in the senate for three months, 36 years old, here is this young guy from pennsylvania, was seen as a troublemaker. i just sent to the chairman of the ways and means committee to jail. we were a bad dude coming into the united states senate. i had a reputation for that. i'd better keep my head down because i have this reputation of being a tr

somebody has to do it. if youngsters are interested in being engaged in political life, the decision making that comes with being a representative, just do it. if you are interested in being engaged in the wider world away from the united states looking at your responsibilities and shared challenges of being

white -- why don't i give you some time to do that. i wanted to revisit the issue about the work for salomon. this is an area where supervisor avalos has brought this area of. i would like to hear from jennifer or laura lester on this item. >> get afternoon. i am a consultant to the event authority. -- good afternoon. i believe that what probably will be most useful to you is if i review some of the modifications that have been made to the workforce plan since we last prevented -- presented to you on february 1. what we did represent changes we made to be responsive to the concerns and issues that you raised, particularly with regard to their being very clear consequences if contractors and businesses did not really fully participate and did not perform according to the workforce development plan. so the first thing i need to do is give you a new version. however, i have to tell you that as of this afternoon, there is one change in this version. supervisor kim, i apologize. i have four copies by new york office has a coffee -- i know yo

you foresee some changes in the future to clearly identify what they have to do in order to qualify to be a benefit corporation? >> and the state law clearly defines what is necessary for benefit corporations to qualify itself. it's sort of lays out the criteria by which a company has to a test and change the bylaws to essentially say that we do stand for being a company that has a corporate purpose, a level of accountability and the level of transparency that sets us apart from corporations that are not benefit corporations. just to be a corporation at all, you have to test certain things through bylaws and your signed under penalty of perjury that that is the case or you can be subject to all sorts of penalties and investigations by state authorities. that is all they have to do, and you don't have to do very much, as i think we all know. i think every single one of you have run companies, as long as you have corporate filings. you stand as a standard corporate entity. commissioner dwight: what is the time frame? for example, my company would have to turn -- ch

i do think we will be able to do what we need to do to make sure that san francisco residents do get there. i hope that is going to be something that folks have made moving on that as well. so, colleagues, you know, there is a question to us now about whether we move this out of committee. i do believe that in terms of taking a look at mitigating our general fund risk, in terms of taking a look at the ports long- term, it seems like these are questions that have been answered. they have been addressed. there are a few things that are outstanding. i understand that. i do think it is time to send this item to our full board to have every member of the board be able to weigh in on it. i wanted to leave my comments at that. commissioner kim: i think i am just reiterating a lot of points that my colleagues have made. first of all, i am thinking everyone and all the parties that have worked on this in acknowledging the tremendous amount of effort and work that has gone into this. far beyond what i have put into what is before us today. also, just reiterating how difficult this decision is f

but what are you going to do for us? >> if they know that you're a sex offender or something else of that nature, then they will charge you rent to live here. >> i pay rent by them giving me a list of canteen items that they wanted me to order for them. it was $25 a month. >> but it didn't stop there. on the day before the super bowl, laudone says he sent an underling, inmate jason wright to his cell with another order, to hide a batch of hooch, inmate-made alcohol. >> so i panicked when i had to do something illegal. even though i was told and forced to do it. i said no. i'm trying to make a stand. saying, you know, this is it. they came back down and says you got to do this. it's not an option. when i said no again, you know, got beat up. it was almost like the straw that just broke me. so i said, okay, i'll do it. >> but the next morning laudone turned the hooch into officers and told them he was being extorted by wright and holloman. >> a lot of sex offenders know who i am. they know that these cos think i have a lot

it's not okay for a kid to do that. ot okay for a kid to get drunk. >> research backed up my position. dartmouth medical school says teenagers who watch movies with teens drinking alcohol are more likely to start drinking than those who don't watch them very much. the study says movies have more influence on kids and drinking than their parents do. >> astounding. how many have we covered on this show when we can explain the fact that the parents are the role models for kids. not so. who would have ever thought movies would contribute to binge drinking. we are talking about scar face, the last supper, godfather, glory days, sideways. movies you wouldn't necessarily think would be that bad for your kids to go to when they are over 17. here's the thing. should we reconsider restrictions on alcohol and movies. >> censorship never works. that's not the solution. the solution of hoover is what i said last week to jay leno is the media and stars that children admire have to start making public service announcements saying, you

>> i make a motion to deny. do you want to continue this or go forward with the motion? do you want to go forward? vice chair joseph: do you understand what he is asking you completely? >> i am a business. i need help. >> i am asking you if you want to o your application and come back or want us to vote now. vice chair joseph: do you want to continue? >> which one would you like? >> i want to continue. vice chair joseph: you are asking us to continue it. is that right? >> would you like to come back with a new application, or decide now? vice chair joseph: i am really hesitant because i am not sure he completely understands us. nobody here speaks cantonese, i am sure. guys? there is only one thing i can say in chinese. the building owner -- can you communicate with him correctly? >> he wants to continue. >> he wants a continuance or wants to continue it right now? vice chair joseph: he wants to contue ites votion itow s at wreyi? ok. so you would like to continue and reply. am entertaining moti t grt lican's ret to continue this to the applicant's -- the next time eapplic

it's it's kind of you usual thing is well we what we want to do but he's you know of course there are a lot of specifics that can't be covered in four page letter but to me i guess you have the mistake a huge mistake it is the position of the person who declared before we had a very poor in economical way country yeltsin and all this period will try to improve the situation and now dear friends and how it's a electorate i have to receive the possibility to start to look to looking forward and to do something that's not the position from the people of the foreigner or robber or point of view it's position of a person who says yes we did something but it's not enough but we did something and we have to do something well here's a quote from the russian prime minister on why russia should develop modern technologies. russia must play a bigger part in the international division of labor not only as a supplier of commodities and managers but as a no longer all regularly rooted carting and knology at least some sectors otherwise we are doomed to deplete our resources by constantly exchanging

that's what you need your research universities to do. we have four research universities, and in the last eight years they have begun more and more and more to go on past research and development and application to commercialization. and ge is a great beneficiary of that as well i'm proud to say is a great benefactor because they help invest in our polymer institute which allows us to focus state efforts on advanced manufacturing with advanced materials. the composites that are used to make the fan blades and assemblies for the genx engine are just an example of that. we focus not exclusively by any stretch, but we focus on three clusters for our manufacturing side, aerospace, automotive and energy. we are an all-of-the-above energy state. today southern company has a coal-fired generation facility under construction in mississippi, $2.5 billion, that will burn indigenous lignite coal. lignite is a low-grade, rank coal that when i was growing up people had lignite on their land thought it was a nuisance because you couldn't farm it where

say you need to analyze it more. what do you need to do? >> well, right now we have already analyzed that if we introduce into the market something 10% or below, that we feel safe that won't have a material impact on the markets. and we have not gone -- we don't know what will happen beyond that. >> it sounds like you have done the analysis like you did it in 2011, and it went through the third quarter of calendar year 2013, and you found no adverse impact for the level. >> the 10% market, yes. >> so i would hope having done that analysis that we could move forward to give the folks at the plant some certainty, and also just to maintain the cleanup schedule on an accelerated basis. as i talked to you about, i worked a lot on the cleanup. and in the end we accomplished something great working with the department of energy on an accelerated cleanup. it was initially opposed by some people, including folks who had jobs at the plant to maintain the status quo. but in the end it saved the taxpayer somewhere between 3 and $4 billion by accelerate

i mean, tom and i used to do that. there were times when we were actually saying to each other in effect, look we got the votes, and we are going to whip you, but is there something to do to modulate this to easier go down with you and your team or me and my time and we did it for each other. one time john mccain was blocking a bill that involved tom in south dakota. and i had to track him down and i finally got him in phoenix airport and i said, john, this is tom daschle's bill. this is really important to tom, and you can't do that to the democratic leader, and he said, okay. we got it done. tom was my friend from then on. [ laughter ] >> that is where it all started. >> we have a question right here at that microphone if you could identify yourself. >> alex fulton with the "hill" newspaper. i wanted to get your thoughts on president obama's recent recess appointments of richard cordray and the others in the midst of the pro forma sessions, and they are said to be sham sessions, but were those appointments justified u