i hope tony likes it. [laughing] [applause] >> we knew this would be tremendously embarrassing to tony, because tony, you know, doesn't like to be recognized in any way. but the reason we did this, tony -- and i want to thank the trial lawyers association or the northern california criminal trial lawyers association as well as stuart hanlon. we're going to also have an image of you -- a sculpture of you, in our trial room to help inspire the next generation of attorneys. but this one is yours. [applause] so thank you very much to all of our panelists. we're going to take a five-minute break and then come back with our next p >> the second panel. this panel is going to be incredible. it really is. we have a superstar panel and, of course, a superstar moderator that i'm very honored to introduce, and that's judge lee baxter. and judge lee baxter is retired now from the bench, although you would never know it. and she's enjoying a new career as a photographer, is a great photographer. but during the time that

and tony's tony's performance and his art transcends.nt of the people. and tony's faith in his audience is something that i always believed in, and it was just a matter of singing. >> you were quite smart. because you started pairing tony, dad, up with k.d. lang, the red hot chili peppers, of the time acts. is that part of your thinking? >> at a time when rock 'n' roll people stopped taking chances, tony never stopped. >> what's it like having your son run your business? i would imagine having somebody that close to you that you can completely trust must be something you can't really buy. >> right from the very early age, i knew that he was something special. he's highly intelligent, highly creative, has a humanistic attitude about things and is brilliant about how he goes about his work. >> and very protective, i would imagine. do you feel very protective towards your father? >> yeah, but i don't have to be. tony, his art speaks for itself. tony talks about the time that rock 'n' roll came into the '60s and there was a lot of changes. a

the great tony bennett.i will feel a glow just thinking of you ♪ ♪ and the way you look tonight ♪ oh, but you're lovely with your smile so warm ♪ ♪ and your cheek so soft there is nothing for me but to love you and the way you look tonight ♪ ♪ with each word your tenderness grows tearing my fear apart ♪ ♪ and that laugh that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart ♪ ♪ lovely never never change keep that breathless charm ♪ ♪ won't you please arrange it 'cause i love you and the way you look tonight ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ lovely never never change keep that breathless charm ♪ ♪ won't you please arrange it 'cause i love you and the way you look tonight ♪ ♪ just the way you look tonight ♪ ♪ tonight tonight tonight

not as replacements for tony and vince, but as supporters. and those of you that will continue to always contact you and reach out to you and i want you to know that you have a family in all of the members of the san francisco fire department. today we're joined by several people. i'd like to acknowledge a couple of people that were instrumental and helped us all out on june 2 and 3rd and 4th, the members of san francisco general hospital. dr. andre campbell and leslie dubbin who were very helpful and were hoping for a different outcome than what we experienced. we also have our police chief with us. thank you for being here. members of the command staff. you'll hear from the mayor soon. i'd like to start off this, a simple but symbolic ceremony and i'd like to ask our department chaplain, father john green, to begin with an invocation. father green? >> before the invocation today, i would like to ask you to join with me in acknowledging the valarios and perezs and the great sacrifice they made for us. [applause] if anything, our grief is mor

tony? >> i think in a corrupt society in a perfect society as we have, there has to be a hope or a projected ideal that there is justice, we'll say, in the court system and that there's idealistic lawyers, and there's fair judges, and there's not, you know, indelible bias and prejudice and rac racism, sexis, and all of those things dissipate, you know, when we approach the per diem. it's just like blinding our self. it's a way of taking the placebo instead of the medicine. great reform is required. we're threatened now by totalitarian tactics, grand juries, informants, mandatory sentencing. it's not very good, my friends. we're losing constitutional rights every day. and i think the way we appease our conscious, those of us who desire, i guess, not to probe and not to reform and not to speak out is we pretend that things have occurred in courts that didn't real liquor. [applause] >> it sounds like all of those things would make great tv or, of course, a great novel. paulette, you've spent s

tony baloney. the guy's name is tony baloney. favorite pasta, rigatoni. favorite island, coney.rime minister, berlusconi. favorite restaurant, shoney's. favorite dessert, freshed mixed berries. you thought i'd say spumoni or tortoni. no, he's lactose intolaroni. this gives me an idea. this tony baloney is a television series waiting to happen ( laughter ) and i'm about to happen it. >> in a city gone mad, tony baloney was the fine mist of the law. but then he went too far. >> you pepper sprayed five ladies in the face? >> i got results. >> you're a loose nozzle, baloney. turn in your badge. and your spray can. all of it. >> lucky for new york, bilini doesn't need a badge. >> it's baloney, chief. he's gone rogue. >> that's bad news, no matter how you splice it. >> aahh! >> maybe you're right. >> this fall, justice has a first name. it's spelled t-o-n-y. and it's gonna burn. chris baloney is tony baloney in "the vigaloni." >> jon: we'll be right ( cheers and applause ). >> jon: welcome back. as you know, as you know, when barack obama was elected president, one group in particular

and right next to her we have tony serra, and tony serra is the most prolific trial lawyer of our times. he's tried more cases than any other living lawyer. if you ever had a chance to see him in court, it's just a sight to behold. it really is. we're so grateful that he could be here today. he's trying a triple homicide case right now in oakland. he has a jury out waiting. you may get called away but we're hope you're able to stay for the panel. finally, we have sheldon siegel. and sheldon siegel is a corporate lawyer who has written a series -- i think seven books now, a fictional criminal defense attorney named mike daley who actually lives here in san francisco. and he's written a series of books and these becomes have been shown and transcribed and read throughout the world. so we're going to start now with a clip, a video clip and then we're going to go to the panel. >> i think it is our national novel. if there was a national novel of week, this would be it for the united states. i think it's the favorite book of almost everybody you meet. >> the first time in my life that the bo

did you follow tony's trials during that time? >> i followed tony in and out of the courtroom for about 10 years. being in tony's presence is a lot like having an overdose of x-rays or something like that. he is intense. once he sort of dumped this book on me -- it was never intended to be my book. it was supposed to be my art and his book. one day he came schlepping boxes and said, here, it's your baby, i don't have time. and i was left crushed under the avalanche of his enormous life that was both fascinating and -- it had so many tributaries to it. i had never written a book before. i had written journals and some articles. i mean, i consider myself a visionary, and my head isn't filled with words, it's filled with pictures. but i'm capable of describing the pictures that i see. so anyway, i began this journey of a thousand miles with one step at a time, the shrapnel of his life all over my floor, and trying to put together this puzzle which became so frustrating that i kept running away from it as much as i embraced it. i fina

blair's retirement fund speaking of tony blair i have in this headline max tony blair's team have set up an office in kazakhstan says presidential adviser so believe it or not any body who calls tony blair in to advise them they usually end up buried at sea or in a unmarked grave in the dead. lo and behold apparently cause that president nursultan nazarbayev has hired tony blair associates to advise him now the article points out that with his vast energy supplies essential asian state is increasingly confident and prepared to spend millions to promote itself tony blair himself says he is not personally making a profit directly or indirectly through tony blair associates or any company on this well i buy and put on all the leadership in this country but tony blair just entered because nobody is safe another tony blair is there they're all in the crosshairs if you if your leadership there you value your life you should leave immediately because tony blair is in the house and tony blair is in the house the big house of the vatican house of course and this brings me to blair's body pope