we want to thank tom cochran and the u.s. conference of mayor's staff. let's give them a round of applause [applause] we want to thank the host mayor, mayor gray from d.c., and all the servers who helped as of the last three days. [applause] here, there are task force meetings, lunch will be served. we will see you in february for the leadership meetings or in june in dallas. thank you, and god bless you. >> a reminder, if you have missed any of our coverage of the mayor's meetings be, you will find it online at c-span.org. upe live coverage coming this afternoon, from the south carolina senator tim scott. senator scott announced yesterday that next month you -- he will host an event honoring the black senators. and invite has been extended to president obama, among others. we will hear today from defense secretary chuck hagel, he will be joined by his french under part -- counterpart. he ordered a 60 day review of the nation pot nuclear arsenal -- nation's nuclear arsenal. we expected hear more about that , coming up at 3:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. the

. >> i'd like to take an opportunity to thank ceo tom cochran and the entire u.s. conference of mayors team for making this winter session an amazing experience. let's give tom and the dream team known as the u.s. conference of mayors staff a big hand. [applause] e mean, what -- i mean, what organization provides q&a with the president of the united states, president obama? let's give 'em another hand, right? [applause] and the president is just as cool in person as he is on tv, by the way. [laughter] i'd like the give a big thanks to our president mayor scott smith, vp mayor kevin johnson, vp rawlings blake and also the entire executive board. we thank you for your leadershipment i'm honored to bring you greetings from the great city of compton. compton is a special place. we're a city of just 10 square miles and 100,000 residents. most people in the united states of america have heard of the city of compton. for those of you that have had the opportunity to visit, you are well aware that our community is much more than gangs, hip-hop and drugs. we are home to thou

before we go on with announcing the winners, i want to thank tom cochran and the leadership of the conference of mayors. into ourst getting third year of the partnership, but it has been a wonderful relationship, and we are truly excited about how we are going to continue this over the next few years. on to our grants. we want to thank all the mayors who applied. we gave our judges are worker out -- a workout this year. we are excited to see the robust projects that are taking place in your cities and communities. thank you again for participating. if you can also squeeze hold your applause to the end, and we will present a check, and do a group photo. the grow 1000 recipients are mesa, arizona, and botanicals walkway. florida, a youth farm. minneapolis, minnesota, a garden. florida, the intergenerational fruit and vegetable garden. houston, texas, the gabriella center for early childhood education garden natural playground. mayors, please come to the stage, and congratulations. [applause] [indiscernible] >> all right, good? moreight, let's get applause for miracle grow and our mirrors in our

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tom coburn was just a great conservative. joe, you're going to the rnc's winter meeting. there is going to be a battle out there to take his place. thad cochranlso a battle down there and sort of a tug of war for the republican party. it's happening in iowa. front page of "the washington post" this morning. which way is the republican party headed? >> well, the way i hope we're headed is being successful. i mean, i'm a volunteer in this position. i mean, i'm not in here just to have something to do. so what i want to do is win l elections. i know chris christie is having a hard time right now but he is smart and answer the questions without using talking points. i think people appreciate that about tom coburn and think they appreciate that about something like chris christie as well. >> tom is independent. it doesn't matter whether he is going against barack obama or whether he is going against certain people on talk radio that didn't appreciate him saying, hey, the government shutdown idea, not a good idea and it's going to hurt our party. >> i think we have to be smarter. last time i was on this program, joe, we talked about how the pro lif

tom cochran. tom cochran.com. >> right. i like relationship with john kimbell. i'm a usc fan but i don't -- but other than that i'm glad you have them on the show. i have a question space i was going to get to the whole thing without bringing up usc. >> and my question is, why is there such terrible reception on this station? i lived -- [applause] in the laguna. whether i'm in l.a. or wherever i am, here's this diverse program of want to hear and they can do anything. especially when you get off at lake forest and you start driving -- day or night come in my house, on the radio in the car, i'm going crazy. >> i answered this question all over the country. no matter how strong a signal, no matter how wonderful the station, and it didn't upon when you leave the reach of a signal and the signal is a directional and it is a day timer, which means the moment the sun goes down, they have to turn down the power. so every night you will be going along listening to "the hugh hewitt show" and there are some bands that arrived right about -- is the station south of the mex