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situation something of enormous importance, but to receive the support of the government of the united states of americae leader of the world is something beyond words. >> reporter: this support helped mandela politically. >> and defend the constitution of the united states. >> reporter: but when bill clinton was elected the relationship grew personal. mandela made numerous trips to the u.s. including soon after his election as president of south africa. and president clinton traveled to south africa and visited the jail cell mandela called home. >> he is a ferociously loyal friend. >> reporter: mandela stuck by his american counterpart. >> we have often said that our morality does not allow us to desert our friends. [ cheers and applause ] >> i think he found an individual in bill clinton. >> reporter: they remained close after clinton left office. >> there were many opportunities that bill clinton took to visit south africa to meet with mandela, to work together on anti-aids movements and many other things. >> reporter: mandela's relationship with president george w. bush was not as friendly. after th

agreements and that's why we are bringing product back to the united states and competing with the best in the world right here in the united states of america. >> stephen: good luck with the new rollout. i love it. alan mulally, ceo of ford motor company, the 50th anniversary of the mustang. we will be right back! uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu thanks, everybody. good night! captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org - merry christmas eve eve, jack.

they might be serving us throughout the globe today, and may god continue to bless these united states of americayou. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, united states senator from the state of south dakota, the honorable tim johnson. [applause] >> good morning, and welcome. here todaynor to be as we celebrate the military service of the native american code talkers. i worked for over a decade to honor the code talkers with the congressional gold medal. it is gratifying that this day is finally here. real work, though, began 95 years ago, when native americans from south dakota and across the country (homes and joined the military effort -- left their homes and join the military at a timeworld war i when many native americans were not yet american citizens, but assuredaliantly for homeland. native code talkers were used extensively in the european and pacific theaters during world war ii. the use of native languages was a fundamental tactic that saved untold numbers of lives and help to win both wars. i have had the opportunity to visit with several of the code talkers and learn their personal st

agreements and that's why we are bringing product back to the united states and competing with the best in the world right here in the united states of america. >> stephen: good luck with the new rollout. i love it. alan mulally, ceo of ford motor company, the 50th anniversary of the mustang. we will be right back!

they might be serving us throughout the globe today, and may god continue to bless these united states of americak you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, united states senator from the state of south dakota, the honorable tim johnson. [applause] >> good morning, and welcome. it is an honor to be here today as we celebrate the military service of the native american code talkers. i worked for over a decade to honor the code talkers with the congressional gold medal. it is gratifying that this day is finally here. the real work, though, began 95 years ago, when native americans from south dakota and across the country (homes and joined the military effort -- left their homes and join the military effort in world war i at a time when many native americans were not yet american citizens, but fought valiantly for assured homeland. native code talkers were used extensively in the european and pacific theaters during world war ii. the use of native languages was a fundamental tactic that saved untold numbers of lives and help to win both wars. over the years, i have had the opportunity to visit with s

we are the united states of america, not venezuela where they make the law up as they go along. e wants to change it, go to the congress, but you don't say i'm not going to enforce this part of the law. >> sabrina, turly is not a witch hunter of the president. he voted for the president. >> right. i think he's thinking, i remember a time when america could brag that we we a nation of laws, not willful men and women who made up the rules. it's different when you elect a superstar he suddenly doesn't think that he's there to be the president. >> good or bad for the constitution? >> bad. turly is saying president obama was doing this in overdrive. because the government won't uphold the laws, why should taxpayers abide by them. every president from ford through clinton opposed 250 laws, the constitutional objections but they still upheld them. in president is doing worse in not unforcing the laws. >> he likes to quote the founding fathers. listen to this quote from james madison. he says it will be of little avail to the people that the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read

. >> the constitution of these united states of america, it's not a republican saying that. this comes from someone who actually voted for pre >>> the white house delaying another part of the health care law, this time pushing back the deadline for small business exchange. now the president is catching heat for tweaking the law without the approval of congress, even from some folks who voted for him. >> the problem with what the president is doing is that he's not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system. he >> rich, is john on the mark here? >> yes, he is. obama is making unilateral changes to a piece of legislation and the problem is where is the check and balance on that, wherere the limits, what's to prevent him from changing the law entirety. i realize it's a little bit of a grey area but obama has gone overboard on this. >> rick, doesn't this bothers i some way. >> this is somethiig that's gone on throughout our modern history. in this case though what troubles me is if you read the affordable care act, this does permit these things to be done by the executiv

it's the good the bad in the very very a stiff or a slip ugly the good the united states of america. united states of america thanks to a booming third quarter of the us a will surpass germany in overall solar panel installation for the first time in fifteen years nine hundred thirty megawatts nine hundred thirty million watts were installed across the country during just the third order of twenty thirteen the second best quarter in the history of the american solar industry as a whole and the best quarter ever for residential solar installations obviously the usa has a huge advantage over germany in terms of population considering how far ahead of us the germans have been in pursuing clean technology until now this is an encouraging sign solar energy is the future it's about time the u.s. caught up its western help. the bad dave a game a michigan r. and c. official and former congressman is under fire today for comments he made at a republican party gathering about why it's ok for companies to deny gay people spouse will benefits again and said that gay people are likely to exploit t

agreements and that's why we are bringing product back to the united states and competing with the best in the world right here in the united states of america. >> stephen: good luck with the new rollout. i love it. alan mulally, ceo of ford motor company, the 50th anniversary of the mustang. we will be right back! thanks, everybody. good night! captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome to "the daily show". my name is jon stewart. tonight's guest -- we have a good one univision and fusion anchor jorge ramos is joining us. first if it took you long tier to get your -- if it took you a little bit longer to get your sausage mcmuffin this morning it wasn't because the sausage crop had eye poor concreate. >> staging a walkout saying it's nearly impossible to survive on $7.25 an hour. >> jon: the wages are so low some fast food workers have had to resort a life of crime. [ laughter ] or worse prostitution. [ laughter ] yo

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, jewish war veterans of the united states of america, marine corps league, marine corps reserve association, military officers association of america, military order of the purple heart, national association for uniformed services, national guard association of the united states, national military family association, naval enlisted reserve association society of medical consultants to the armed forces, the military chaplains association of the united states of america, the retired enlisted association, united states army war rant officers association, utah united states colt guard association, chief petty officers association, veterans of foreign wars of the united states, and vietnam veterans of america. this distinguished list of organizations consisting of members and former members of the united states military have registered their opposition. i can only hope at this point that members of the senate will listen to this. this is a so-called savings of $6 billion out of an $80 billion package. surely we can find $6 billion without pu

for holding up the administration's ability to protect the full faith and credit of the united states of america great suffering in the wake of a natural disaster in colorado -- my heart goes out to all of those families who lost lives and loved ones and property -- this is not the time to limit the ability of the united states of america to give relief to those losing loved ones, homes, and livelihoods. republicans refuse to work together with the senate and the white house to bring a construct piece of legislation to this floor today. instead we consider a bill that we know is destined for failure in the senate and would be vetoed by the white house. for months, the majority has a failed to lead. they refuse to appoint members to work with the senate on a top line spending number. they cannot even pass their own spending bills in this chamber. we remember how the important transportation bill had to be pulled off of the floor because they could not find the vote. today they risk halting government services and functions vital to the american people and our economy. chairman, mr. rogers said th

for holding up the administration's ability to protect the full faith and credit of the united states of america. with the great suffering in the wake of a natural disaster in colorado -- my heart goes out to all of those families who lost lives and loved ones and property -- this is not the time to limit the ability of the united states of america to give relief to those losing loved ones, homes, and livelihoods. republicans refuse to work together with the senate and the white house to bring a construct to piece of legislation to this floor today. bill that consider a we know is destined for failure in the senate and would be vetoed by the white house. for months, the majority has they refuse to appoint members to work with the senate on a top line spending number. they cannot even pass their own spending bills in this chamber. we remember how the important transportation bill had to be pulled off of the floor because they could not find the vote. they risk halting government services and functions vital to the american people and our economy. you wonder on appropriations chairman, mr. rogers

the truth of the matter is, if you do not get your arms around health care spending in the united states of america where we are spending 16% of the gdp, most of our competitors are spending less than 10%. it is eating us. it is not just medicare or medicaid. when you think about the federal employees, the federal government, you the taxpayers are the largest buyers of health care. i think we have to be objective and honest with ourselves and say, despite the fact that we spend twice as much as any other society in the world, you cannot argue that we have longer life expectancies, that people in the united states are healthier than the people in switzerland. i believe -- and i started this debate while i was in congress to talk about what americans pay for prescription drugs. those kinds of studies, that kind of analysis has to be done. it should be done on a bipartisan basis. it cost so much more to have a hip replaced in the united states than it does in germany or anywhere else. we need to get to the bottom of some of these costs and figure out ways. i am not sure what the answer is. you could n

they're using steel from everywhere other than the united states of america. >> they do source their here. >> no they don't. >> yes they do. as far as the politics it's become a symbol for ngos with an 18th environment agenda. state department assessments, who are weighing the fit, the president will look at all the facts all the assessments, five years and counting now and make the decision that's in the interest positive our consumers and approve this pipeline. they have assessed the climate impacts, they have assessed the impacts to the resources along the routes and they have not found any significant impacts. ready for your approval. >> but cindy your organization api since the late '90s has been building front groups, fostering denial, sewin sew -- sowing seeds of denial. saying we're going odig up all the oil in the tar sands. there is no way we can hit the 2° benchmark that the united states and other nations have agreed to. keystone. if you want a climate debate, thing. list? this is not the right battle for it. and when you look at our increase in production and what natura

ambassador, the people of the united states of america mourned today with the people of south africa for the loss of a truly extraordinary man. man i havepressive ever met in my life. nelson mandela. >> this memorial service includes three choirs and 25 speakers as part of a 10 day celebration remembering the life. the former dean of the cathedral was actually arrested in the mid-80's during the anti- apartheid demonstration. a close connection here. officials saying they were honored to open the doors for this event, calling mandela a voice for justice. reporting live this afternoon outside the cathedral, abc 7 news. >> thank you. south africa's government trying to figure out how an imposter got on stage during the memorial service. it was supposed to be a sign language interpreter, but deaf heple watching complained was signing gibberish. he did not seem to be signing any language. the incident is a major security breach since the man stood next to world leaders, including president obama. noon, we have learned desmond tutu's home was burglarized while he attended the memorial ser

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. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington d.c., december 9, 2013. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable christopher murphy, a senator from the state of connecticut, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 243. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to the consideration of calendar number 243, s. 1356, a bill to amend the workforce investment act of 1998, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leader, the senate will be in morning business until 4:00 this afternoon. at 4:00 the senate will resume consideration o

compromised national security and violated an oath he took and did serious damage in the united states of america. >> one of the terms you use, bipartisanship, in your presentation earlier, you talked about the dinners and things you do, but how do you maintain bipa bipa bipartsenship? >> the easy thing to do is default to our respective corners and dig in. as the chair of the democratic national committee, i support my party's agenda, but i recognize it can't be my way or the highway. we don't have enough people that believe that. so it is my responsibility to reach congress the aisle and find republicans we can work with. but there are a precious few. many are worried about loosing their elections. you cannot have people in congress that care more about power than the right thing >>. >> are they suspiuspicious of y? >> there are some. but we hold dinners to clear away perceptions that our roles create. >> one thing you wrote in the book is that obamacare/affordable care act can be altered. is that a fair assessment? >> like any legislation. what i wrote about the affordable care act/obamacare i

it's very few people that are willing to stand up to the united states of america. 's willing to make a sacrifice for what he believes in. i mean, this is the united states of america versus harborside. >> the day steve d'angelo has been waiting for is finally here. chief federal justice maria elena james is hearing their motions, and she could effectively shutdown harborside for good. >> i came from kentucky. i love you. i love you. i love your brother. >> i know if i died tomorrow that my life's work is going to be accomplished, and i don't think that the drug warriors like melinda hague can say the same thing. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate. >> sure. all right, all right. there's henry. okay. >> the precedent-setting ruling today will likely shape the future of cannabis for patients, for proprietors, and for all the states with these laws on their books. >> i'm all set, baby. >> we are going to win. >> absolutely. that is what we came here to do. >> for steve, a win is everything. a loss would be devastating. there's no secondhand smoke in here... ...an

wherever they may be serving us throughout the globe today, and may god continue to bless these united states of america united states senator from the state of south dakota, the honorable tim johnson. [applause] .> good morning and welcome it is an honor to be here today as we celebrate the military service of the native american code talkers. i worked for over a decade to honor the code talkers with the congressional gold medal. it is great feingold that this day is finally here. the real work, though, began 95 years ago when native americans from south dakota and across the country left their homes and joined the military effort in world war i. many ame at a time when native americans were not yet american citizens but fought valiantly for our shared home land. native code talkers were always used sentencively in the european and pacific theaters during world war ii. the use of native languages was a fundamental tactic that saved an untold number of lives and helped win both wars. over the years i have had the opportunity to visit with everal of the code talkers and hear their personal stories. i alw

. >> (ring, i pledge allegiance flag of the united states of america. on that have billion. mr. president, i'd like to call roll please. please do >> commissioner turman. . vice president marshall a excused. sxhos is in repute. commissioner loftus >> also with us is the chief of police and the director of sense complaints. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the

flag of the united states of america. on that have billion. mr. president, i'd like to call roll please. please do >> commissioner turman. . vice president marshall a excused. sxhos is in repute. commissioner loftus >> also with us is the chief of police and the director of sense complaints. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wednesday, december 11, 2013, san francisco police commission meeting i want to start before we move into the agenda that agenda items number 6 and 7 we'll move off agenda and councilmember faulconer is there you want to say. >> we've made tremendous progress that some on two policies one is a member involved domestic violence policy which would give me how versions are involved which one of our officers is used of domestic violation. and there's been some work on both of those ordered if you watch regularly on about monday nights you know i've been asking for sometime and we're very close basis often is the case we need it have a couple of more meeting to make sure we're all think the same page. we want to make sure we h

it just completely ignores the fact that presence in the united states of america illegally is a criminal offense. entry into the united states illegally is certainly a criminal offense. on january 3 of 2012, a report by the inspector general revealed that uscis officials, top political officials, pressured the employees to approve applications that should have been denied and that employees believe they do not have enough time to complete the interviews of appea applicants - quote -- "leaving ample opportunity for critical information to be overlooked." the 9/11 commission said people should be interviewed face-to-face and this has been collapsed today totally. on january 10, 2012, the president promoted cecelia munoz to be the new director of his domestic policy council. she previously served as senior vice president of la raza and took very extreme views, frankly. she should not be the person. we need an objective person in that position, not an advocate for really undermining a law. goodness. on january 7 -- i'm not saying that this is a bad person. she's a perfectly legitimate to be

we are offering a special edition of the first ladies of the united states of america. it is a biography and a portrait of each lady. it talks about the role of each lady throughout history. it is available for discount. and our website has more about the ursula ladies. that is produced by the white house historical association. at c-n find out more firstladies. highlightsc-span from the memorial service honoring the late nelson mandela. toer that talking political's mike allen about jobs. thousands gathered at an open air stadium in johannesburg on tuesday to honor the life of warmer southampton president nelson mandela. he died earlier this month at the age of 95. within the next two hours you will hear some of their remarks beginning with president obama. >> thank you. thank you. thank you so much. [applause] thank you. to graÇa machel and the mandela family, to president zuma and members of the government, to heads of state and government, past and present, distinguished guests -- it is a singular honour to be with you today, to celebrate a life unlike any other. to

there are other things going on in the united states of america and around the world. we have a problem in syria. we have a problem with iran. >> there is no doubt the republicans will have a strong set of talking points. the democrats will have their talking points about strengthening the economy. this will get played out in the campaign. congressman sabo, we have a question from the audience. do you think it is possible to convince an urban legislator to vote for a farm bill that would make significant reductions on the level that house republicans have talked about, more than $40 billion of cuts? do you think urban legislators in the house or the senate would ever go along with something like that? >> those cuts will be dramatically reduced in any farm bill that passes. the farm bill in general, there are disagreements between the different commodity groups. they are looking at eliminating the basic blanket payment to farmers. from the perspective of urban legislators in minnesota, the farm program is one of the few programs the federal government where we get a disp

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 our october 29th and november 5th, 2013 board meeting minutes. could i have a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor breed. without objection, those meeting minutes are approved. [gavel] >> madam clerk, any communications? >> there are 2340 communications, mr. president. >> then can you read the consent agenda? >> yes, items 1 through 10 are considered routine. if a member objects you an item can be removed and considered separately. >> colleagues, would anyone like to sever any of these items? if not, roll call on the consent agenda. >> supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. the

but it didn't take long for the second term curse to kick in. >> the united states of america not payingsible. >> the feds have tracked more than 20 phone lines used by the associated press. >> it's inexcusable and americans are right to be angry about it. >> was it because of a protest or because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they would kill some americans? what difference at this point does it make? >> chemical weapons in syria nearly pulled the u.s. into another war in the middle east. >> whether or not this red line was crossed. >> the president decided not to cross that line. >> first of all, i didn't set a red line. the world set a red line. >> gun control took center stage. >> president obama is out with his plan on gun control. >> but teen massacre at sandy hook couldn't change hearts and minds in congress. >> what's appalled me about this debate how little it has to do with making people safe and how much it has to do with this decade agenda to attack the second amendment. >> up know it's a rough year when a 30-year-old hacker can bring down your national spy prog

these people love the united states of america, they love freedom. and i don't think you could view this as anything but arrest traditional support for people who want a free and democratic society. we're not talking about military action, we're not talking about blockades, we're talking about the possibility of sanctions if they continue to brutally repress their people. that would require some action on our part just because that's what the united states of america is all about. and by the way, there are estimates around 200,000 to 300,000 people are singing in the background that i hope you can hear. >> we can indeed. i want to turn you to iran right now and the fate of robert levenson reported this week in several media outlets that he was indeed on a mission for the cia in iran. he's been missing for about seven years. haven't heard anything since 2011 from him. i want to read you a part of the statement from the levenson family, which said the u.s. government has failed to make saving this good man's life the priority it should be. is that true

of the united states of america. they write half of the mortgages in this country, two-thirds of the credit cards. well, do you think maybe it's time to break these guys up? are we going to march down the path of too big to fail and have to bail them out again? hear lots of discussion about that, mr. president? no, not too often. let me conclude, and the last point i want to make is we had the president of the world bank here just yesterday talking about global warming. as i think most people know, the entire -- well, virtually the entire scientific community, people who study the issue of global warming, understand that the planet is warming significantly, that it is already causing devastating problems, that the issue is man-made, and that if we do not address this crisis by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, moving away from fossil fuel, the habitability of this planet for our kids and our grandchildren is very, very much in question. that's what the scientific community says. have you heard, mr. president, any deba

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 >> please be advised that the ripping of and use of cell phone and parnlz and other electronic devices are not presumed to be innocent and a anyone maybe lead-out of this meeting. please be advised the public has up to three minutes unless the port commission adapts other minutes >> public comments not lists on the agenda. >> any public comment? >> item 6 executive directors report. >> good afternoon, everyone thank you for joining us today we're putting out a couple more chairs. thanks for your patience a little bit bigger crowd. and happy holidays. my first two items neither of representatives to be recognized are here yet so if you don't mind commissioners i'd like to put that over it's entirely possible they're working off of 315 so i'm not sure when they will arrive. but if i could skip the 70th birthday and the jeremy 70th birthday then my neck item is the pier 92 art project as you've noticed on thanksgiving today, the project was completed the

it seems like you have bordered off this place that is the west coast of the united states of america. not just from people of san francisco, but from people from everywhere who decide that their dream is to come in a mobile home and visit a nice city. i'm pretty good at math. but you've managed to take off 16 vehicles at full ton street that equals 500 feet. full ton street 15,000 feet long. that makes 1 block and a third of these walls of these vehicles that nobody can stand to see go away. this is where i would this i that all people from everywhere coming to the west coast would want to deliver their own service -- self in a kind of space. it's a bunch of little mad people. maybe we should have a place for these people to batchich and complain. i'm upset now because when i was coming home across from the panhandle. my little dog was run away. my done should have been home safe. it's not bad. it's not sad. it's just tragic. people should have a safe place to be. earth person on this planet deserves a home. having anything otherwise. >> thank you. we'll have lisa marie and you speak