what they've been doing in politics in the united states journalist author and former c.n.n. how is that rick sanchez always good to pick your brain a lot of it on all things chris is. all right well the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff army general martin dempsey is in israel today and no down the number one issue on the agenda will be iran and remind the strained relationship over several decades between iran and israel as well as its western allies i just look at the last few weeks first there was that mysterious assassination of a top iranian nuclear. scientists also both the u.s. and europe have sort of kicked it up a notch in terms of sanctions against iran and then tehran has threatened to shut down the strait of hormuz the passageway for about twenty percent of the world oil trade now there are a few reports out there now that say that iran has actually abandoned any and all plans to develop new nuclear weapons but there are several other reports that suggest at least that's not the case the question here is how does the rest of the world react to what they think

the united states can fix this with an election. the 5xeunited states can fix th we've done it before. i'm more worried about europe. europe has to make decisions about what it's going to be in the future. so it is absolutely crucial, i do worry about europe for the reasons you have cited. but also because we now have a situation with russia, which is an opportunity, what is shift wkyc putin at the moment. we have an opportunity also with turkey. turkey has become hugely more influential in its region in the world. >> right. >> but we need europe reaching out, being more self confident not so internally focused but externally focused with us. >> let me turn to your book. i want to talk about that. it is a fantastic book on the economist list of top books to read so congratulations on that. >> thank you. >> what you did extensive research on, for the book. what did president kennedy do right? what did he do wrong. >>> and how did 1961 change it? >> the most controversial point in the book and the book that i think has caused the most

the united states has the latter. so i am very optistic about the united states' position in the world going forward. and i think you do have to think about this in a, you can't think about this in a static way or in a one dimnsional way going forward. >> charlie: iran. where are we because you get the feeling that somethingbeyond threats are going on, become sanctions or clearly van impact. oil sanctions may have a deepening impact, there's covert action that's clearly had an impact. we don't know who is responsible but we have ideas about that. is there a sense that the iranians are feeling that and they really do want to have serious negotiations. >> i can't answer the last of the questions but i can address the lead up to it, if i might. i do believe that the ranians arfeeling a tremendous amount of pressure. when we came into office, there was really, iranian was internally no threat. it was on a rise in the region and it had divided the international community. a lot of questions about should we give the iranian

supervisor kim: i was curious about the 125 qualified units. do these units. like, have been tested, and the mediation needs to happen? >> in order to qualify, we do a series of things. most of our properties come to us from direct referral from the the part of public health, where a lead hazard has been identified. or a child with lead blood poisoning has been identified. we take those cases and do a risk assessment and the lead paint inspection. we determine what are the hazards, conditions of the paint, and then we draft a scope of work to address those hazards. we do the work, cleared it, we have to meet certain clearance levels from the department of public health. during which time, we occupied the -- relocate the occupants, so they are not exposed to additional hazards. supervisor kim: will the grants cover all of the qualified units on the list? >> correct. supervisor kim: is it possible to get a list of where these districts and neighborhoods are located? >> i can certainly forward that to you. a lot of our work is in the 94110, 94114 zip codes. >supe

units -- living. not enough bathrooms and other problems. we do ourselves a service if we create larger units that allow families to say -- day. i am in favor as stated. we would allow the possibility of reconversion in the future. >> is this a motion to not -- take d.r. and approve the project with the requirement that upon selling the property, it be converted back to two units? is it a motion to not take d.r. and approved and encouraged? >> mynas only to encourage. it would not necessarily have to be converted back. i would rather keep it as a suggestion to leave that availability there should future owners wish to do that. we were well served with a larger units. commissioner fong: i am going to pile on here. i understand what you are saying about us going against the housing element and the general plan. i think this is something that is extraordinary and special. i am happy that you review any merger because there could be a serial development. someone tries to get a whole block. i am glad this

the united states have shown us that they feel they owe us this. they have shown us what they're doing and they're working on projects for prevention and the new way of saying say no to drugs. that is hard to solve because there is so much involved. >> if people are unhappy and out of work and feel oppressed. if people are living in poverty, if people are uneducated and have a sense of hopelessness, they will resort to try to kill the pain. >>also, there is a way through real-estate and insurance -- if you can stop the way that money can get out, that would better -- a lot of it has to do with arms. it is a lot of things involved, but controlling the demand would be the solution -- there are so many opinions because -- it's hard. >> panama had some dark days. that comes into my mind because recently noriega was in prison in miami and france and now back. will that change the complexion of anything? he is 70 some years old and he is there in prison -- does that have any effect? >> not at all. >> how do people look at him today? >> as a criminal and

state department senior adviser and in london we crossed to frank jackson he is vice president of uniting for peace all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's see what mr obama has in mind for the pentagon. in light of budgetary mandates passed by congress last year requiring reduction in overall defense spending president barack obama has announced a new strategic initiative for the american military in contrast to his predecessors the president's plans no longer call for the u.s. to be able to fight two conventional wars simultaneously in different parts of the world and his vision for a smaller more nimble military america will be able to respond to asymmetrical threats like terrorism as well as the more conventional threats such as china's growing navy obama insisted that the cuts would not come at the expense of america's security we will stay vigilant especially in the middle east. as we look beyond the wars in iraq and afghanistan and the end of long term nation building with a large military footprint will be able to e

>> he is former ambassador at the league for the united nations and is a member of the united nations international law commission. ambassador, thank you so much for joining us. >> it is a pleasure. >> for the folks who do not know about the league of arab states, give us a little bit of the history and a little bit of the mission. >> the league of arab states, which people called the arab league, it is an original organization that was created in march 1945 between seven member states and now has a membership of 22 members. it has grown over the years. it is a political organization trying to correlate the position of the member states. now it has developed into an organization that focuses on all kinds of different aspects of life in the middle east. it has expanded to comprise specialized agencies, like the united and in it -- like the united nations in the field of education, the profusion of the role of women, -- the promotion of the role of women, disarmament, you name it. i think the importance of this organization is that it can deal with division issues in a better way than o

>> my unit is fine. it is not the greatest unit. if a fixture bathroom, i would probably spend my money and fix my bathroom. i have a place i go to on the weekends. i like the building. i just think that -- you are the only people who cannot deny or force him to give her a bathroom and live like a human being. i think that would show good faith. thank you very much. sorry it took half the night to get through this. >> mr. president, commissioners, my name is mark epstein i am the attorney for the owner of the building. i have with me the architect who drew the plans. he is here to answer any questions you might have. commissioner fung asked for photographs. i have a few more. here is one of that shows bracing that was done by the former owner. rather than replace the stairs as we hope to do. some additional bracing here. it was done by mr. rossi. and another area that was done that needs to be fixed with perhaps

the thing is the united states i don't know whatever the united states. decides if it intervenes in syria and overthrow the regime and let's say establish a democratic government and government syria they would say that it's intervene you need a lottery if it doesn't there was a united state is not reacting i think the united states has really. done the appropriate steps to condemn the i said there's you me was one of the first countries to condemn i said the regime use of brutal violence and i think it was one of the countries who pushed for a sanctions on syria so i don't know what. kind of time we go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on what awaits syria state parties. and. if they should something inappropriate for the public they can easily be sure. to say. i wish she would have never but it has. you know for a t.v. camera becomes unnecessary but this is their own safety all foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors should leave. and it's clear what happens with such witnesses like out of like. mer

the thing is the united states i don't know whatever the united states. criticize if it intervenes in syria and overthrowing the regime and let's say establish a democratic government and government syria they would say that it's intervene you need a lottery if it doesn't there was a united state is not reacting i think the united states has really. done the appropriate steps to condemn the assad regime it was one of the first countries to condemn assad regime use of brutal violence and i think it was one of the kind is a push for a sanctions on syria so i don't know what is. can we run out of time where to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on what awaits syria state r.t. . if. it's not about spilling blood. it's the war of barricades from one side and fears blockade from the other. invisible border has cut people from the land for twelve years. the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile cards is still not over. wealthy british style. markets weiner. scandal. find out what's really happening to the global

they were mad at the united states. the united states had stabbed them l in the back in june, they had declared war on them when they were in mortal danger from that l poll on. so they were mad. that's where the english stood at that time. where did the americans stand? well, the americans had done terrible on the ground. their whole invasion of canada had failed. and the privateers did go out, but the privateers, it takes a long time to get that all going. the privateers were going quite well, but it would take a very long time before that really came into play. what about the american navy? well, my word, the american navy was doing just great. the first defeat of the american army in canada was at detroit in august of, august 15th of 1812. madison could not believe it. he was horrified. here it was an election year, he had told everybody he was going to invade canada and do all this stuff, and here he is, he loses. and this is going to kill him in the election. four days later, four days later the uss constitution, o

the united states is disturbed by the rapid economic rise of china and by the predictions that china will see. the united states is the major economic power you see washington has bought this neo conservative idiology world who jimmy and so it wants to be able to prove it the rise of a challenge a challenging power and that that's what lies behind this is what lies behind washington's war preparations against iraq. and you know as the us for the past decade we've been kind of distracted focusing our resources time effort in iraq and afghanistan and the middle east so in that time china has had it time to expand their their influence and the region so i mean so is now the time that the u.s. is recognizing this and saying hey we need to do something about this. yes they're directing their attention mainly against china's independent access to energy that was what the united states organized nato attack on libya was about it's a plot china from an all investments and eastern libya is what the united states africa command is about is to block china or elsewhere in africa nigeria for exam

are three-unit buildings. it will go down to a one-unit building. i am try to accommodate their interest and respect the housing element in a way to apply what we assessed should be the law of the lead for san francisco. i'm not saying it is perfect or ideal, but we have credibility here because of what is actually the case. that is why staff recommended disapproval. with many other cases, the staff does not recommend approval. but this one is unique. i have nothing wrong with this family. i am doing what i feel like is the best thing to protect your interest in terms of this is what you said you want to do. i recognize that down the road, he might not be the best thing for you, but it is the motivation of unifying the family. we are saying we are blessing you to do that. commissioner moore: perhaps this would require a discussion with the city attorney in terms of what commissioner borden just described is appropriate to capture that. i do not think the zoning administrator -- we can find it. i appreciate com

five percent of its funding from the united states the i.a.e.a. basically kowtows to american foreign policy is a political tool even at that it did not say that he ran his weaponized thing so i don't know marc you may have information you would like to share with me i that's not not from the terrorist cult that mossad and israel are supporting them which i had enough and america is considering of the listing as a foreign terrorist organization and may be not information from them but if you have genuine information that iran is weaponized thing then i think as is your duty as a citizen of whichever country you belong to to presenting to the world because that is. not your and your libeling me here right now. well there are forty five paragraphs in the i.a.e.a. report that detail all of the evidence about nuclear weapons related work or work that very much appears to be nuclear weapons related now that is what he ron has to respond to you asked me what does iran have to do answer those questions and follow the i.a.e.a. rules about reporting new nu

the merger reduced the units from three units to two units. the 2010 merger also included extensive remodels and -- that would bring them into compliance with city code. this has not generated any formal correspondence in opposition. the department has received 12 letters in support of the merger. staff on the proposed merger would mean to of the five units that must be considered by the planning commission and. the criteria related to owner occupancy have been met. the remaining criteria do not appear to have been met. also, the removal is not necessary to correct design or functional deficiencies of the dwelling units. department staff has found the merger does not appear to promote objectives of the housing element as a relate to housing stock. -- they relate to housing stock. this has been cited as an area that needs to be addressed in the housing element. the merger does not appear to address this issue. the residential structure appears to contain ample room to accommodate two units. the department has concerns that the project has used

each had a slightly larger unit in one lot and a small unit on the other a lot. both have significant departures for lot size, and iun financing of for your unix -- financing four units, and i concur that given the size of the units, they are probably more affordable than the larger units, which have some fairly large buildings, given the fact there is still a multiplier that applies in volume -- applies value. the question that makes me sway in between is while studying the fact the building was moved through a state action and the fact that it is difficult to finance is that the rear property has no parking. when we had these other cases, and i am trying to decide whether i want to be consistent or not, the one i voted for also have rear parking. the front building was massive, so in my opinion it was over- untitled. give me another moment. >> i appreciate the comments. gooi am slightly torn in my feelings, and the reasons being part of both challenges, and planning looked carefully at the situation, and given the constraints going forward, it does bother me th

we begin this ening as nsions rise betweenhe united states and iran with iran' ambassador to the united nations mohammed khazaee. >> if you want to create problems in the persian gulf of course it would be the right of tehran as well as the rest of the countries in the region to try to defend themselves, so in my view, if you ask me, the iranian strategy is not to close the strait of hormuz, but naturally, any nation if it's under serious threats by foreign powers, to, they will defend themselves. >> rose: we conclude this evening with the author of many sports books, the writer john feinstein and his new book called one on one. >> i realize with all of the books that i had done that i met so many different characters through the years beyond, whether dean smith or mike she chef ski or tigerçó woods or anybody you wanted to name and a lot of people not as famous as those guys i found fascinating, why not go back and talk to some of them and tell some stories i haven'told before about my relationships with some of these pele because i always kept myself out of the books. >> rose: khazaee

i appreciate 51 units that are born to be used in housing, but what about the 150 vacant housing units? could more of those be used to ease the suffering of homeless families, especially during the coldest part of winter right now? >> for think yothank you, commi. this is that currently are really key issue for us, and we try our best to keep our families as the mall as possible -- to keep our families as stable as possible. i want to dturn it over to talk about the program itself. take a good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak on behalf of the program at san francisco unified school district. my name is salvador lopez bar. the money is money set aside for students to be used to eliminate any barriers that would otherwise prevent productive and gainful education. most of the students enrolled in the program are combination of those that live in a shelter, abandoned buildings, cars, parks, churches. the other half of the family that we subsidize to are those that we would consider doubled up or tripled up for economic reasons, loss of appointment,

the united states is the... one of the largest destinaons for chinese outside of europe as a whole and outside of asia. but we also have about 160,000 chinese students studying in america every year. and i believe that exposure to ou democracies, our freedom, our openness as a society whets their appetite, quite frankly, for similar freedoms and progress and openness within china. >> rose: what e peoplein the arab spring call universal values. >> yes. and i think that appetite for universal human rights is growing stronger in china everyday. >> rose: so what do you worry about? >> well, i... the united states and china are becoming interdependent economically. so much of... china has a great interest in a rising prosperity in america. a strong, economic economic recovery of our enomy cause e reality is that so much of what americans buy is made in other countries and a good percentage of that comes from china so that china knows that their economic health depends on a strong world economy and with europe in the

no you see the case involves two foreign nationals one a canadian citizen working in the united states the other a canadian and israeli citizen studying in the united states both wanted to get involved in the two thousand and twelve election one working on behalf of president obama the other on behalf of conservatives and both argued that the ban on campaign contributions was a restriction of their first amendment rights after all foreign nationals have freedom of speech while residing in the united states and as the supreme court ruled in citizens united money is speech the court ultimately ruled that while they can speak freely they can contribute freely writing quote the united states has a compelling interest for purposes of first amendment analysis in limiting the participation of foreign citizens and activities of american democratic self-government and in thereby preventing foreign influence over the u.s. political process but yesterday it was up to the supreme court to give the ultimate say in the matter you know that same supreme court that ruled in citizens united that corpor

wolves will go to sheffield united as a team. ne darby as sunderland well clinical for getting me if i want food and respond take on all those games would take place on january twenty eighth or twenty nights. well anyways i'm paul scholes decision to come out of retirement was announced an hour before kick off at the end he had stadium and he played the final half an hour of that group in cup tie the thirty seven year old had called time on his glittering career at the end of last may i was coaching at old trafford he made his united debut in one thousand nine hundred ninety four and went on to make six hundred seventy six appearances when ten premier titles the f.a. cup three times and the champions league twice however the sixty six capping the midfielder has now chosen to carry on playing until the end of the season before he's even we had four months missing darren fletcher and tom cleverley in midfield . tennis now and andy murray has enjoyed the perfect warm up for the upcoming australian open with a comfortable victory ove

small units in the city. we have plenty of old, barely functional small units which are often a problem. we're better off fixed up, retrofitted kamal larger units that are safe for families. we're better off with them that way. it is not a wholesale approval we're talking about. we're talking -- not talking about some big policy where everyone can go out and emerge in its for purposes of sale and a bunch of other things. it is one unit, one family and it will serve four other families in the future. commissioner borden: there is a movement among the rest of us to have an alternate. i do not know of icahn -- if i can. >> you need to -- commissioner borden: have this motion failed first? the motion i i would like to make is we take d.r. and approve. this project can go forward. upon the time that they are selling, it would be represented as rh2. the building would remain rh2. >> the need to allow his motion to go forward. >> let's vote. president miguel: let's boad on the original motion. >> to approve my under

and i couldn't disagree with christian more i mean look at the united states military is greater than all the other militaries combined in the rest of the world practically and a little bit of a cut here and there isn't going to hurt us ability to the center sells i read the document to me the document is as belligerent as ever and while the united states is going to fight two ground wars at the same time it is prepared to fight one ground war and. obliteration of any other enemy that might raise its head it's very ironic that obama had made a big pitch for getting rid of nuclear weapons in a famous speech. those weapons more than ever. one of the criticisms of the new strategy is that the united states because more reliant on nuclear weapons than ever before is that the right path the united states should be taking i mean other countries arming themselves and we still have the issue with iran on the table i mean iran will say well i mean if the americans want to rattle those kind of weapons why shouldn't we have them as well i mean it has a knock on effect. well you know for a start

the best of the rest of the news occupy the courts the anniversary of the supreme court's susan's united decision that has fundamentally perverted our democracy is fast approaching and the day before january twentieth anti-corporate personhood organization moved to amend dot org has big plans inspired by the occupy wall street movement activists with will occupy courts across america that day including the supreme court to challenge the judiciary which has given corporations the rights of actual people despite not a single elected lawmaker in the house senate or presidency ever voting or signing into law any legislation that gives corporations the rights of people after watching corporate spending records get shattered in the midterm elections of two thousand and ten and watching corporate front groups bombard newt gingrich with negative ads in the iowa caucuses this declare that our democracy is not better off thanks to citizens united joining me now to offer his take on this is brad smith former chairman of the federal election commission during the bush administration professor of law

united airlines currently pays $129,743 per acre now under the proposed lease, united airlines would pay $139,900, about $1,000 more. because of the reduction in acreage, the total will be a reduction of $443,000 in annual revenue to the airport. however, as shown on page five of our report, although there would be a reduction from the immediate release that is being opposed, because of additional subleases that would be terminated by the airport, where the airport has been paid over $1 million to united airlines to sublease some space, and then a permit that the airport would enter into with united airlines for an additional $550,000 of revenue in building 575, the net affect, if approved, and subsequent subleases and permits are entered into separately, would result in about $1.1 million of additional revenue to the airport. as was also indicated, there is an additional $696,000 of remediation payments still owed by united airlines to the airport, which will likely be paid in monthly installments over the next five years. we, therefore, recommend approval of the legislation. superv