attention to the newest campaign by our friends over at united republic looking to lock the revolving door in washington, d.c. where politicians leave. they go to the coal people, the oil people, you know how that works. american republic has sent letters to all 36 retired members of congress saying, you must fully disclose on your web sites which private interest firms you are currently negotiating with for your next jobs. there is now a disclosure lock currently on the books that actually exists, but as they continue to point out, that law is utterly useless because there are so many loopholes that it create the ambience of closure without actually having to comply with it. joining us is senior investigat investigator, and your work, lee, it's nice to meet you finally on tv. just how bad is the revolving door and we'll talk about what you guys can do about it. >> thanks, dylan. we are focusing on this issue that we're becoming extremely concerned with what we're calling back door bribery, this legalized form of bribery where a lawmaker cuts a special deal or writes a law that benefi

and writer for united republic's blog republic report or gentlemen thanks so much for joining me tonight. ok voter id laws is something we brought up a lot on this show because right now there are fifteen states since last year that have already passed these new laws i think over thirty states that are trying to make it specifically a voter i.d. law and so what do you think of just targeted justice is going to have to do right in the sense of this texas law they said that this would risk the disenfranchisement of thousands of voters and so they just have to go state by state i mean this is going to be a trend they did it before i presume so i mean bill you go state by state or try to get some kind of a broad class action kind of thing going on here the problem with the political. question of this is that you have one people on the side of the issue saying you know of course this is been a historical way to blunt the aspirations and to deny voting rights to especially african-americans but on the other side of the issue regardless of anything else the voting system in this country sucks i

earlier i spoke to rad deline communications are not required or for united republic and out his opinion on rather the change of roles for lawmakers where a conflict of interests here. how exactly is actually two conflicts of interest the first one is that when you're actually in office you're allowed to continue to negotiate with people for your next job so if you're retiring member of congress you could be talking to the n.p.a. or to the drug industry and saying well i want to become a lobbyist for your organization or for your lobby after i leave office and the various the time you're doing this you could be potentially overseeing legislation you can seriously affect their lobby or their industry i mean put pro quo they're technically illegal but there's very little real oversight or regulation of this and unfortunately that he's called that even just in the other one of course is that once you leave office you have all those connections within the executive branch in legislative branch and you can continue to have levels of access for those industries that ordinary people wouldn't ha

the journal on the joys of georgia to get his investigative reporter at republican support with united republic said welcome to the show thanks for having me so let's recap for people who don't know what is this law that's being pushed in georgia that's drawn the ire of both occupy movement and the tea party shares basically what it does is it just allows people from having any sort of protests residence in the bills that are written within the bill that actually says anything that sort of disturbs the peace and quiet of any one of these residences it's pretty broad i mean what do you define as the peace and quiet yeah i mean you know that's broad but it's mainly targeting unions because unions like to think outside for example the homes of major executives it's a tactic used all over the country to sort of pressure and put pressure on the company but you know it isn't saying that you can't step on private residences or step in private down that's already already illegal what it's saying is you can't you know can't use the road outside of a sidewalk or anything that really should be a constitut

joining me now to talk about how to coax pull this off is lead pop investigative reporter with united republics republic report a great new endeavor and i encourage everybody to get over and subscribe for your daily briefing it's brilliant thank you and welcome back lee good to be here tell us how to cope brothers managed to get all this money into elections to get republicans elected and are wrongfully we're talking about all these republicans these tea partiers who have election two thousand and ten how do you manage to do this without showing up in federal election commission forms over two years out from the two thousand and ten midterm elections the first major election after systems united and we're just figuring out how the koch brothers manipulate the election and elected the tea party congress one of the strategies they used was to use a network of nonprofit organizations that don't disclose their donors or their spending we just received a financial audit of one of the organizations they use elect republicans and what's interesting here we're seeing all this electioneering activity ac

joining me now to tell his story is that giuliani communication and outreach coordinator with united republic and writer for republic report zed welcome back to the program and thanks for having to have you here with us first things first of what what is this anti picketing law proposed in georgia shares so it's actually no it's a really radical law what it does basically is it outlaws any sort of picketing by anyone perhaps in a labor dispute or a union member at the private residences that's a company executive you know that doesn't mean obviously you can never come on their property it's already illegal but let's say you want to take it outside on the sidewalk or if you want to have a demonstration on a street nearby it's actually written into the law that you can't disturb their peace like you can't like you know have be noisy or anything that could that could sort of disquiet and sort of what they're doing at home well i remember during the two thousand election during the recount in florida there was a large group of republican operatives who had circled the naval observatory were were

on this, the united states in republic of korea are united. >>vicki: the president added that north korea could receive harsher sanctions as well. >>vicki: the main suspect in the afghan murders has been arrested. the u.s. has paid money to family is of the victims who were killed and wounded. protests and calls for justice have continued in afghanistan since if the soldier was flown out of the country. a legal defense fund has been set up for army staff sergeant robert bayles. in >>vicki: decision 2012 is headed here to the bay area. mitt romney is going to be at an event in sentences could tomorrow, if you'd like to see the former governor of people will pay about 1000 each to go for a lackey reservation in the dinner. santorum is continuing his push to catch up to mitt romney, one day after winning the louisiana primary. >> why would we put someone up who is the worst republican in the country? he is the worst to put up against barack obama. >>vicki: still in the race is now gingrich and run ball. soft >>brian: here is a live look at the go

on this, the united states and republic of korea are united. after for the president says north korea could face additional sanction sphere. country claims it's only intention is a peaceful space program. >> a big earthquake and south america. this city was devastated by a massive earthquake two years ago. people on the coast were evacuated in case of a tsunami. coming up, a milestone for tiger woods, we will have details straight half and its live look from the mt. tam cam. look! here she comes! ♪ she'll be comin' 'round the mountain when she comes... ♪ ♪ when she comes. ♪ it'll be spinning new chrome wheels when it comes. ♪ ♪ when it comes. ♪ custom spoiler, race grade pistons, ♪ ♪ gt35 turbo charger. ♪ and they'll all know that it's kevin's awesome car. ♪ bought em! ( clears throat ) sorry. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay. >>mark: thought of our bright in walnut creek. faugh a chilly start today in walnut creek. 57 with sunshine and noon looking for a high of 61 before the storm some time tomorrow. new this morning, director james canyo

republic of korea supports u.s. national interests in a key ally in northeast asia. since the united states and the republic of korea forged an alliance in battle over 60 years ago, the republic of korea has become a vibrant democracy, economic success and global security partner. currently serving beside us in afghanistan and off the horn of africa. in stark contrast one of the world's poorest, most closed and most mill tarized countries, north korea lies less than 20 miles from the northern districts of seoul, a city of over 24 million people. the change in north korean leadership led to a period of increased uncertainty on the korean peninsula. the new leader appears to be following the same pattern of his late father and grandfather, examples of this are north korea's recent announcement of their intention to launch a satellite with a ballistic missile and their continued denounsing the nuclear security summit and alliance military exercises. these actions are increasing tensions on the peninsula. additionally, north korea continues to adhere to its military first policy, they ma

on this, the united states and the republic of korea are absolutely united.outh korea is one of our key global partners we discussed a range of challenges to international security and want to thank south korea for its important reconstruction and the nato in chicago where we will chart the next phase of the transition to afghan lead and i also thank the president of south korea's strong support of sanctions on iran because of its failure to meet its international obligations. i know this decision does not come without costs. both to the republic of korea as well as our own country. but the prospects of an iran with nuclear weapons would be a threat to the world. and this is one more example of south korea stepping up and playing a leadership role on the world stage. finally, we're deepening the ties between our people. we agreed to expand educational exchanges which will give more korean students the opportunity to study in the united states which benefits both of our countries. so once again, president lee, i thank you for your hospitality, for your leaders

on this, the united states and the republic of korea are united. for flick of a >>mark: the average price of gas is up 115 over the past two weeks. the national average is at $3.93 sen. will will have on morale crisis coming and. her heart had >>james: a slight chance of its rental and the north bay late this afternoon but probably not until after 11:00 p.m.. winds and will pick up 11 small as well. more on the forecasts in a little bit. kohen here is a look at what can tell all my how high it. but haugh here's a look at your current temperatures. most locations are in the 40's this morning with the exception of a few select stocks in the months recalls a full look at the forecast coming up in a little bit. >>erica: it looks like we picked up a new problem at the bay bridge westbound just before a treasure island, reports of a stalled vehicle had this could have an impact on the metering lights. traffic is covered this schedule. allow yourself extra time going towards the end francisco. as we survey of the traffic conditions around the bay area int

on this, the united states and the republic of korea are absolutely united.ince south korea is one of our key global partners, we discussed a range of challenges to international security. i again want to thank south korea for its important contributions to reconstruction in afghanistan, and i updated the president on our preparations for the nato summit in chicago, where we will chart the next phase of the transition to afghan lead. and i also thank the president of south korea's strong support of sanctions on iran because of its failure to meet its international obligations. i know this decision does not come without costs, both to the republic of korea as well as our own country, but the prospects of an iran with nuclear weapons would be a threat to the world, and this is one more example of south korea stepping up and playing a leadership role on the world stage. finally, we're deepening the ties between our people. we agreed to expand educational exchanges, which will give more korean students the opportunity to study in the united states, which benefits

>> our guest is the ambassador of the republic of panama to the united states. he is former chairman of the panamanian association and vice chairman of the council of private enterprise. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me here. >> the fda agreement recently signed between panama and the united states, what does it mean? >> the first thing that it means the 300 votes that we got, which is the first in the history of the united states, i think it means a lot for panama, for the united states, for the whole world. for panama, it makes it clear for our country. for the world, it makes it clear that everyone wants to better trade. andy united states, if they can get together on something and vote 300 congressman for the treaty. and >> what is at the basis, or the heart of the economy of panama? is it services? is that agriculture, manufacturing? what is at the heart of it? >> it is services. if we are not an agricultural country. we are mostly exporting services. our canal is one of them. it contributes to -- close to $1 billion a year to the gov

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north korea knows hits obligations and must take step to meet those obligations on that the united states and republiche are absolutely united. and since south korea is one of our global partners we addressed challenges to national security and i want to thank south korea for important contribution and reinstruction in afghanistan and updated the president for our n.a.t.o. summit in chicago where we will chart the next phase of the transition to afghan and thank the president of south korea strong support of sanctions in iran because of failure to meet its international obligations, i know this decision does not come without costs both to the republic of korea as well as our own country. but the prospects of an iran with nuclear weapons would be a threat to the world. and this is one more example of south korea stepping up and playing a leadership role on the world stage. and finally, we're deepening the ties between our people. we agreed to expand educational exchanges, which will give more korean students the opportunity to study in the united states, which benefits both of our countries, so, once a

on this the united states and republic of korea are absolutely united. >> the president added that north korea could face additional sanctions if they move forward with a blunt. they say they're only intention is a peaceful space program. an earthquake in south america but no reports of any major damage. there was a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in chile. but people along the coast were evacuated in case of a tsunami. we will be right back as the kron4 news continues. here is a live look outside on the san mateo. traffic is starting to grow lanes of snow for the major issues across the span. hey guys, breakfast! ♪ [ female announcer ] if whole grain isn't the first ingredient in your breakfast cereal, what is? now, in every box of general mills big g cereal, there's more whole grain than any other ingredient. that's why it's listed first on the side. from honey nut cheerios to cinnamon toast crunch to lucky charms, get more whole grain than any other ingredient... without question. just look for the white check. kept >>mark: >>stanley: the police are arresting the men on suspicion of drunk dr

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i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> let's move on to item a, approval of the board minutes from february 8, 2012. >> so moved. >> second. >> any corrections? roll-call. >> [roll call] 5 ayes. >> presentations to the board of education, superintendent's report. superintendent garcia? >> on a positive note, as of this week, we have the opportunity to acknowledge school administrators and later on we will recognize them. the first week of march is identified as the week of the administrator and we want to send out kudos to the principals who are critical to make innovation and exciting things happen and i hope to be extremely supportive of our teachers and everyone who creates the magic at a school site and the ones who won the bureaucracy as well. -- who run the bureaucracy as well. it takes a big team and we appreciate it. [applause] this meeting, i think i can speak for the entire board -- we hate having this meeting every year. talk about the tradi

on this, the united states and the republic of korea are absolutely united. >> president obama is in for a two-day international summit. >>> former vice president dick cheney is in a northern virginia hospital recovering from heart transplant surgery. he was on a cardiac transplant list last october when i asked him about the possibility of having the transplant. >> i've got to decide on a heart pump now. i've got a piece of equipment inside me that supplements my heart. it works very well. i'm 14 months into the program and it's been functioning perfectly. >> a statement from the former vice president's office says, although cheney and his family don't know the identity of the donor, they will be forever grateful. >>> a prosecutor in paris says the brother of a gunman killed in a standoff should be charged with complicity in seven murders and two attempted killings. they say he should also face terrorism-related charges in connection with the wave of shootings on his younger brother. he was killed after a 12-hour siege in the city of fa luge. now back to fareed zakaria gps. >>> only

i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. i am going to call roll-call. [roll-call] you have the form. >> please call line item #one. >> general public comment. the public gives us to address items but do not appear on the agenda -- the public is asked to address items that do not appear on the agenda. >> i am the outreach director of the libertarian party. i think the city continues to spend too much resources prosecuting victimless crimes or crimes where there is no one who wants to file charges. hopefully the fact it is higher profile will lead to more justice for ordinary people. good i would like you to consider giving back the peace powers of the control specialist who are more community-days. there has been and who resistance -- there has been resistance with this. to many prosecutions of things like people riding bikes on sidewalks, things which are not contributing to our actual crime well murders and serious assaults people have to wait to get jus

[laughter] [laughter] [applause] >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and into the republicfor which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. ♪ [chorus singing] [chorus singing] [chorus singing "star spangled banner"] [applause] forward. halt. forward march. [applause] >> you may be seated. i moved a little bit ahead of schedule by introducing all of you. i was supposed to do that at the end of that. and understand if you have been in my position, i would have wanted you to introduce me first. in [laughter] you understand why that happens, mr. mayor. ibm, of course, delighted to have so many of my yearayor le' good friends from throughout san francisco and the bay area and the country. mayor lee had some special things he really wanted done on this occasion, and the girl's chorus was one of them, and the boys' chorus would be another of the special activities that he would like to see occur. his emphasis is obviously on including everyone in the city, so from early morning to day until the present time and on through another part of the d

united nations security council. but the establishment, the transformation of the current republic of cyprus into a federal state composing of two federal units, each run by each community where, of course, human rights will be fully respected and where both the greek and turkish cypriots will have the right to acquire property and live freely throughout the island, like the members of the european union. they could exercise such rights in another 26 countries in europe, but not in their own country. and of course, the right of legitimate owners to decide the fate of their property, whether they want restitution of their property rights, whether they want to be compensated for their property or exchanged their property. and of course, cooperation with turkish cypriots within the federation and the european union as well. we decided to join the european union because we strongly believe that membership of the european union will be the ultimate guarantee for a prosperous and peaceful future for all cypriots. >> cypress is simply located -- soon to reconquer or power in the past, up until now, aspired to have control of its

on this, the united states and the republic of korea are absolutely united. >> president obama is in south korea for an international nuclear summit. it kicks off tomorrow. >>> let's get right now to the new information just into cnn on the killings in afghanistan. sara sidner joins us with much more on this developing story. what can you tell us about these payments there to the victims in afghanistan? >> reporter: randi, we talked to one of the provincial council members in kandahar and he told us he was there at the meeting and what went down was basically a u.s. representative came, spoke with him, spoke with some of the family members who were there, and handed over more than $800,000, the equivalent of that in cash in afghan money. also, we should tell you that the breakdown goes like this. $50,000 for each person who died, $11,000 for each person who was wounded. what is interesting, if you do the math, is that it looks as if the u.s. has paid for a total of 16 dead, and they have charged a total of 17 people dead. we're trying to figure out why there is a discrepancy again. a

republic of china? >> we were moving to establish relations. as canadians we had to be careful about what the united states thought. it's always been very difficult for canada to take a path that is too divergent from the united states and on the whole we tend to agree with the united states, we certainly did on the cold war on major foreign policy issues, but i think we never felt committed to taiwan as the united states did and we never felt i think as viscerally anti-communist perhaps as many in the united states did and we're also sort of a practical people and we had a lot of wheat at the end of the 1950s and china had a lot of famine and they came to the canadian china and we'd like to buy your wheat and we're prepared to pay hard currency, so we started trading with the peoples republic of china not to the pleasure of the united states, the united states was not pleased about it but we established a trading relationship and then at the end of the 1960s, the new prime minister reviewed all our foreign policies and came to the conclusion and i think he was right that it was absurd for canada no

"i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." president chiu: are there any items? >> please read the items. could you please call roll on items one to seven. supervisor chu, aye. supervisor aye, aye -- supervisor: , aye. supervisor elsbernd, aye. supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mark, aye. supervisor olague, aye. supervisor wiener, aye. supervisor avalos. aye. president chiu: item 8. ordinance amending the san francisco environment code and adding section 402. >>supervisor elsberndavalos: t. we had approved a plan for promoting cycling. we would have 20% of our troops to be by bicycle. the goals of this policy are clear around reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting transit. and on clogging our streets for their needs. we have many tools to help us get there. one of them is building our infrastructure around the city. also part of that is the infrastructure we can build in our buildings, where people commute to to get to and fr

"i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." colleagues, we have copies of the minutes. could we have a motion to approve? without objection, this meeting minutes are approved. are there any communications? >> i have no communications. president chiu: if you could read the consent agenda. >> these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote. if a member -- requests discussion it shall be removed and considered separately. president chiu: would anyone like to sever any of these items? will call? >> supervisor olague, aye. supervisor avalos, aye. it supervisor campos, aye. president chiu, aye. supervisor elsbernd, aye. supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. president chiu: those ordinances are passed and adopted. item five. >> amending the city code to establish city count -- city participation in federal counterterrorism activities. supervisor kim: i would like to continue to this -- to the full board next tuesday to allow d

the first time again just speaks volumes to our resolve in our partnership with the republic of korea and the united states alliance. >> tuesday's demonstration is widely viewed as an effort by the u.s. and south korea to highlight their unity ahead of the launch by north korea. >>> today marks the 17th anniversary of a deadly sarin gas attack on tokyo's metro system. the incident left 13 people dead and sickened about 6,300 others. members of aum shinrikyo religious cult released the toxic gas inside subway trains during the morning rush hour. a memorial service was held at tokyo's kasumigaseki station. families of the victims and other participants, including transport minister takeshi maeda, offered flowers. >> translator: i offer flowers every year in the hope that people's memory do not fade away. >> japan's supreme court has finalized death sentences for 13 members of the cult for the sarin attack and other crimes. >>> japan and canada are expected to announce a plan to negotiate a bilateral economic partnership agreement. the two sides will likely give the final go ahead to the talks when jap

. >>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america into the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you. please be seated. mayor lee was scheduled to attend but was not able to make it. he sent his congratulations to our medal of valor recipients. we're joined by the police commissioners and the commission president, vice-president, commissioners. also on the stage this evening we have the chief of police gregory surh. we have the deputy chief of special operations and the deputy chief of the operations bureau. we have the deputy chief from the airport bureau. we have commander in the operations bureau, the commander from the sfmta, the commander in chief of staff, and the commander from the operations bureau. this evening we are going to start with a few words from the chief of police gregory suhr. >> good evening. i want to thank everybody for being here. we are a very proud police department, rich in tradition. this week, we had a promotion ceremony on monday where we promoted sergeants, lieutenant