tom did. so in the eyes of the law scott, who used to be jessica, was still a woman. but tom, who used to be laura, was now a man which meant scott and tom could get legally married. with their two adopted sons, gregg and logan, they were now a family. along with two dogs, two cats, a turtle and a puffer fish. their older son, 13-year-old gregg, has a form of autism called asperger's syndrome. >> i have really good balance. yeah, one minute. i'm going to drink this milk and then show you. >> 11-year-old logan has just started middle school. >> what's not normal about my family is i have two dads. kind of makes it weird to go to school and stuff. >> would you say that you have an unusual family? >> nah. maybe a little. maybe just a little bit. >> tom adopted logan and gregg after a previous relationship with their mother who passed away. the moores were blissfully happy as a family of four, but, like most married couples, scott and tom wanted to make a baby. unlike most male couples, they had the means to do so. >> what's going on there? >> the baby is going on in there

tom scott, tom borden, ken mcgary, may wo ng and roland labron. but any other member of the public who would like to speak on this item please come forward. again, this is on item number ten. are the folks who signed the speaker cards please come up? >> go ahead, sir. >> hi, i'm tom borden and i am with sf urban riders and another group whose name shall not be mentioned but i just wanted to review some history on the park. and basically my premise is that mancel is a bright that has been on the park by the transit planners and this has been realized since the first master plan was put together in 1983 and a lot of things have changed over the course of these master plans in the 1983 master plan, they said that mancell something had to be done about mancel and the plan proposed dropping it down on the north side of the ridge, and that did not seem too workable. and then in the 1985 master plan, they decided to close mancell from the two ends of shelly and force people to drive around that horse shoe of shelly to get around the park and that was dro

>> you look good in cake. >> steve: that guy right there, he plays the father in the movie, tom everett scotts us live from l.a good morning to you, tom. >> good morning. hi. >> steve: okay. you're an actor in that. but in real life, you have children. how close to that character are you out in los angeles? >> they pick me up out of my life here and put me down in a movie about my life. i couldn't have handled this role, i think i would have had to reconsider acting. >> steve: so tell us about the similarities. >> they're all there. one of them is my father-in-law moved in with us, so we have the whole old school versus new school thing happening in my house. >> steve: so you won't let your kids -- at the real scott house, you don't let your kids eat sugar? >> oh, no. i give my kids sugar. >> steve: good. >> of course, i do. >> brian: let's talk a little bit about -- it stars bette midler and billy crystal. is it hard acting disgusted by their behavior because they're such legends? >> yes. yes. it is because i'd be laughing with them most of the time. then have to precontinued like what they

thank you scott. [ applause ] >> i saw tom ewy the director of the department of building inspectionnd i want to thank him and i want to thank the san francisco parks alliance who is here and the trust for public lands and most of all, i want to thank all of you, all of you for helping make this happen. [ applause ] >> oh, yeah. it is his last official tree lighting as a supervisor. where is he? come on up. yeah, we have already forgotten up here, you have got to come up. a big... our loudest, loudest round of applause for supervisor sean elsbern and his son michael who is here. look at this guy who just showed up in the left-hand part of the stage, our former mayor willie brown who is here. [ applause ] all right. now, would you... thank you. so now, i want to introduce the city's park champion and chief and of course he shares our vision for making our parks, better cleaner, safer and more fun. he also loves to be in our parks and loves sports and he loves to play and pretty darn good at a game of ping-pong among other activities let's give a big san francisco welcome to our mayor,

. >>> our guests this morning include maryland congressman chris van hollen, rick scott, christiane amanpour, tom cole, and newly named senator tim scott and brad garrett will join us. wednesday, december 19th. "starting point" begins right now. >>> welcome back, everybody. our "starting point" is the state department. now blasted for systemic failures that led to the deadly september 11th attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. an independent review board determining that security at the physician facility grossly inadequate that leaders in washington ignored repeated requests to add personnel there and after the tragedy that claimed four american lives, there was a lack of transparency, responsiveness, and leadership at the senior levels in libya, and in washington, d.c. our foreign affairs reporter elise lab bot live in washington this morning. what happens next after this report? >> well, soledad, the panel made about 29 recommendations for the state department to get working on. let me go over a few of them quickly. first of them is to strengthen security personnel for the high-threat post

tom, be short. [laughter] >> i don't know, scott. every time i see you, i want to take off my clothes. i don't know what that is. [laughter] >> you can read into that whatever you wanted to. i think you should see from the remarks that preceded me that one strong attribute of both these extraordinary men was a sense of humor and a sense of irony. i've often thought about the differences in their background and how they came together in that context that juxtaposition in history. you know, san francisco, as the former mayor and speaker mentioned, was very eclectic, electric at the time, women's movement, the lgbt movement, the civil rights movement, and, you know, things were happening, boys and girls. harvey's election i think made people take notice. i think that george's, george's proclivities were always in and around social justice. i know that he was raised catholic. so was i. 16 years of catholic school has made me the man i am today. [laughter] >> and harvey influenced by jewish culture, you know, i don't think it's ever been explored enough. but if you talk to every brit, you k

. >> tom: still ahead, slow job growth doesn't discourage tonight's "market monitor." mark luchini of janney montgomery scott tells us why. that upbeat job growth in november didn't lead to consumer cheer as december began. the reuters-university of michigan consumer sentiment survey fell in early december to its lowest level since august. the dow rose 81 points, the nasdaqas down 11n further losses in apple shares, the s&p up four points. a mixed week for the indices, the dow industrials, which does not include apple, gained 1% for the week. with apple, the nasdaq fell 1.1%. and the s&p 500 eeked out a 0.01% gain since last friday. >> susie: one hundred of the small businesses behind the job growth we're seeing, were honored last night in washington, with inc magazine's "hire power" awards. the businesses span the country, and cross an array of sectors. sylvia hall met with three of the winners to talk about their businesses, and the one thing they have in common: success. >> reporter: they work in different states, and in completely different fields. but together, these c.e.o.s have added more than 1,500 j

. >> tom, good to talk to you, happy new year. >> scott, do you notice how i'm being more gracious. it is almost like i made a new year's resolution a day early. being nice to tom, to bill, i'm about to say something nice to josh if we get there in the second half of the show, we'll see. >> it must be the fact you're writing all these books. the name of which, the most recent one is -- >> "unhedged," i think it is. >> let's go to bertha coombs. what are you watching? >>> apple made a new year's resolution to be nice tore samsung dropping another patent claim with samsung saying they won't sell that particular phone here in the states. if you look at apple and had bought it january 3rd last year and you took out the seven months between march and september, you would be pretty happy today. you would say, i'm up 29%. of course, if you were really patient enough to buy it january 3rd and sell it september 5th, you would have been up 70%. somebody made that profit. the rest of us, just paper. >> bertha, thank you. dr. jay, this is going to be one of, if not the most talked about stock in

tom moss. and tim scott will get a significant amount of black votes because people will go to him in that sameas they went to strom thurmond. and he won't play race like a lot of them. >> i want to ask you this question. i want to see if -- because this is an appointment. the real question is, how few statewide elected black leaders we have in the country as a whole, but particularly in the south. we'll take about that after this break. ♪ [ male announcer ] campbell's green bean casserole. it's amazing what soup can do hi, i'm ensure clear... clear, huh? i'm not juice or fancy water. i've got nine grams of protein. that's three times more than me! [ female announcer ] ensure clear. nine grams protein. zero fat. in blueberry/pomegranate and peach. nine grams protein. zero fat. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into our business. this is the only thing we've ever wanted to do and ink helps us do it. make your mark with ink from chase. c

tom bitman is a technology consultant. and this woman a mother of four. scott wolman owns a speakers bureau and james runs an environmental nonprofit. so james let me start with you. what was the impetus for this conversation tonight? >> i think a lot of us were feeling the same thing that we were impacted by this event not as much as some people. but that we felt helpless. we needed an avenue to discuss how we felt about what was going on. >>20 hoehds lost first graders. 20. those families are shattered. they can't do anything. i feel a bit of a responsibility for others in our community to help, to do something. >> i came because adam lanza and nancy lanza lived 100 yards from my home. and i was shocked and dismayed when i found out that they owned six guns. many of them being assault weapons that, you know, created havoc in our community. >> it's extraordinarily vile to take an assault rifle and kill 20 children. it strikes so deeply with all of us. looking back at columbine, looking back at virginia tech and all these spree killings that are happening in ou

tom ricks talked about the david petraeus saga. fox news invited him onto talk about that network's favorite subject. let's say the discussion with the anchor didn't last long. scottut the republican opposition to susan rice being nominated as secretary of state made sense. he went on sunday shows with wrong information about the attack. >> i think benghazi was hiked by this network. >> when you have four people dead including the first u.n. ambassad ambassador, how do you call that hi hiked? >> it's impossible to figure out what happened. i think the emphasis on benghazi has been political because fox was operating as a wing of the republican party. >> tom ricks thanks very much for joining us today. >> you're welcome. >> that was it. less than 90 seconds. he got the hook. interview over. thank you very much. the controversy was just heating up. fox's executive vice president said ricks apologized to a staffer after the aborted interview. he said he was a little peevish after a tiring book tour. does fox news only allow guests that doesn't answer fox's question. ricks said he was answering the question and said what a bunch of wimps. he said he turned down msnbc

week republican representative tom cole said it was time to give middle-class families certainty their taxes won't go up by $2,200 on average on january 1. then tim scott from north carolina ad admitted that the senate-passed tax cut will surely pass the house since it will take only 26 republican ren votes for passage. i don't most of the time agree with david brooks but no one can dispute this columnist for "the new york times" is brilliant in writing. he's a great, great journalist and explains things so well. i really have great admiration for him. he wrote yesterday, "republicans have to realize they are going to have to cave in on tax rates." that's the way it is, mr. president. "they're going to have to cave on tax rates." then on tuesday, day before yesterday, the senior senator from maine, olympia snowe, urged house republican leaders to end the suspense for middle-class taxpayers. "they shouldn't have to wonder whether we will ultimately raise taxes on low- to middle-income people." i assure them we won't raise taxes on the middle class on the poor, is what ow olympia snowe said. yesterday it seemed every practical republican left in washingt