it seems to me the root of the problem lies with the fact that dhs hired people that are unqualified for their positions and prohibited from hiring appropriate and qualified individuals and they have no training program to help those folks who are unqualified. this inappropriate hires along with training of the employees forced dhs instead of reassigning and appropriate employees are allowing contractors to do work that should be done by the agency. the memo outlines several priorities including the process for the review of the sights security plans. unfortunately, the time of the memo dhs received 4200 site security plans and not a single plan was approved. i know that dhs is working to clear up all the tier one facilities. it's been six years since the program was enacted. we haven't even cleared the low level facilities. if they conduct compliance inspections, dhs had done kukted not sang will compliance inspection. not that any of my trees that i represent along the houston ship channel are looking for an expe inspector to come knocking on the doorment but they are working to kb

, but it seems to me the root of the problem lies at the fact that dhs has hired people who are unqualified for their positions and was prohibited from hiring appropriate and qualified individuals and they had no training program to help those folks who were unqualified. this inappropriate hires along with a lack of proper training of the employees has forced dhs to reassigning and appropriating employees, relying on contractors to do the work that should be done by the agency. the memo outlined several priorities including the process for review, the site's security plants. at the time of the memo they had received 4200 site security plans, and not a single plan was approved. i know that dhs is working to clear up all the tier 1 facilities, but it's been six years since the program was enacted, and we haven't even cleared the low-level facilities. how to conduct compliance and preparing staff to do the inspections. dhs has not conducted not a single compliance inspection. not that any of my industries i represent along the houston ship channel are looking for an inspector to come knocking

he also said santorum is unqualified to be president. >> thank you. >> rick santorum is also campaigning in mish gaun today -- michigan today. the conservative santorum called for a bigger role for government. ron paul and gingrich are way behind in the polls. gingrich is looking past to super-tuesday next week. >>> president obama is meeting with the nation's governor today. they are in washington for the annual governors' conference. the governors are urging for more state resources in education. >> today i'm calling on all of you, invest more in education. invest more in our children and in our future. >> mr. obama asked the governors to higher more teachers and to restore funding to public colleges. and he also reaffirmed his view that decisions about education should be left to states and not the federal. >>> coming up later, we'll tell you why the naacp and local religious leaders are upset over recent remarks made about the president's religious beliefs. that's coming up in about seven minutes. in june, voters will be asked to extend and increase the current parcel tax. the curren

tenants, on this building -- we, the tenants, of this building have been penalized when they hire unqualified contractors who do work beyond the scope of a permit when i do request to permit. as they did in the case of -- construction to read it was not a certified contractor at the time they began their work. they did corps' work. by the end of their work they did get to the certification needed. when they started, and they were not abatement certified. i'm trying to show you a pattern. the plans you see in front of you are misrepresented of of the structure as it exists today. because of this misrepresentation, and neighbors will lose their chance to weigh in on the construction. it seems obvious to the tenants that the intended goal of the owners and their attorney and property manager is to even to tenants so they can rid the building of leaseholders and long-term renters and turned it into condominiums or whatever they're going to do with it. they have tried to prove that i do not live there but the court of san francisco ruled in my favor as the qualified tenants. it was the tenants who

romney cashed in favor last night to have kid rock perform at a rally and he called rick santorum unqualified. >> i am predicting we are going to surprise a lot of people in michigan tonight. >> if so, mitt romney has an alibi ready. >> it is easy to incite the base with incendiary comments. i am not willing to let my hair on fire. i am who i am. >> in arizona all 29 delegates are awarded to the winner. in michigan, the delegates are awarded proportionally. the romney will see a net gain, but a loss in michigan would not sit well. >> newt gingrich spent the day in georgia and in just about half an hour ron paul will hold and rally here in virginia. we will have up-to-the-minute results tonight on abc seven news at 11:00. for updates any time, log onto wjla.com. >> we have developments from ohio where this afternoon the alleged gunman in yesterday's deadly shooting appeared in court. a judge ordered that t.j. lane be detained for 15 days. prosecutors have until thursday to charge him and to decide whether the case will be referred to an adult court. this comes as police released the 911 tapes

our hope is that while the extra credit will not steers away from a qualified bake to an unqualified institution, it might help us to choose between more or less equivalent offerings that we might see in more than one area of what we are soliciting and i think that is the right way to approach this. supervisor kim: thank you. [no audio] this sort of i work with the 99% coalition and also a.c.e. i am impressed the city is doing so well financially and has an incredibly efficient banking system that has worked well on cash management. i am very concerned about the number of people who are losing their homes in the city and the toll it is taking on families where my neighbor has to tilly give up her job. she has given it up for two years simply to deal with the banks. simply to try and get a modification of her loan. her mother is cooking for the family. the sun is taking care of the younger daughter and the husband is working. the effort to simply get the banks to respond is humongous. my biggest concern right now is that there be some public input on these rfp's then there is verifica

voice, and tiananmen square has really helped improve the san francisco community, so i have the unqualified support of the candidates. commissioner maufaendoza: there are a couple of recommendations on here. i am pleased to see they are still engaged. i just wanted to note if you are meeting regularly at getting full participation from the committee. that is going to be really important that we have full participation and you feel strongly about all of these folks. thank you. commissioner maufas: i also wanted to thank you. we expect all of these things from all of the facilities. you do it without a lot of fanfare, so i does want to thank you. this is a great group of people. the diversity is incredible. they all leave in a way that touches my heart and intellect, and i appreciate that. i wanted to take a moment to thank you for your efforts. >> roll-call please. [cameroroll-ca;;] >> that is 7 ayes. >> ok, this is a motion and a second for the resolution to refund up to you$145 million frm the 2003 proposition a bonds. there is going to be of reading. if you could get to the important sent

finally, in terms of national reporting, we have our annual independent audit, which yielded an unqualified audit report. no findings, no recommendations. i think this is the eighth year in a row. as a culmination of a good year, fitch ratings upgraded the authority's credit rating from aa to aa +. that is something to celebrate, will mean lower borrowing costs for us. it is coupled with the action that he took today to significantly lower the cost -- you took to date to submit a lower-cost of our interest rate in the paper so the program. i want to thank all of you for your leadership at the local and regional level and your partnership with us in making these accomplishments possible. i also want to thank the city departments and other agencies that are recipients of prop k, as well as regional planning and funding agencies. i want to thank our staff, our greatest assets. i also want to have a word of thanks for our interns, who i call our greatest assets in the making, and our consultants. i would be happy to answer any questions. commissioner campos: commissioner kim? commissioner kim:

unqualified personnel. unsuited for the work. problems with how money is spent, foul language. ineffective hiring. unauthorized expenses. inappropriate work behavior, catastrophic failure. perceived favoritism. how do you grade your performance on a kale of 1-100? >> i think this report is a clear indication that the program needs a whole lot of work on it. but i do not think it -- i don't think it entirely recognizes what we have done and i'm not being an apologist. we have problems we need to address. >> is there criminal activity taking place here? >> sir, those are issues that we are looking into. >> so you are looking into criminal, possible criminal activities? >> if that turns out to be the result of these reviews the answer to that of course is yes, we have an obligation to you and the american public to do that. >> do on you, i mean, in terms of what you are facing, what else are we missing from this memo? i mean is this a comprehensive memo are you finding other issues that need to be addressed? >> sir, you are asking me to say what the unno oknowns are here, not sayi

federal prosecutors say the countrywide financial knowingly made loan loans to unqualified buyers. countrywide was later bought by bank of america. part of that money will pay for a loan modification program for countrywide borrowers who are underwater with their mortgages. in syria today, the slaughter continues. the dictator, bashar al-assad, seems out to destroy all opposition. his horses have surrounded the city of homs, the center of the 11-month-old rebellion. for a sixth day, the army fired into the city, rockets and mortars hitting houses and mosques. human rights groups say more than 60 people were killed just today. hospitals are packed with woundedly, including children. syria has banned independent reporting but our clarissa ward got in to tell the story of the rebels in one town fighting to overthrow the dictatorship. >> reporter: they marched together carrying their dead on their shoulders, a steady stream of men united in grief and defiance. "god is great," they cried. "give "give us revenge on bashar." they honored not only the fallen but also the bravest among them

and anybody who feels they have ever made any money, been in love, or had a drink, god forbid, is unqualified to run for president. so in that end -- and of what these people reduced to the bare essentials of nothingness in a human being because all the talented people, or bring a great many of the talented -- nobody goes for it. it is a brutal process. you are destroyed. maybe your family. chris, what do you think? and i agree with andy, this is an issue that i think people sit down every four years they say why, but they look in the near an enemy is us. they want us -- people who will throw out the raw meat issues and then we sit back and say i did not want to talk about contraception or abortion, but we have the reptilian brain that needs to be fed. so you have the scrutiny factor that exes out a lot of people and then you have the people who can feed the reptilian brain, he did the inner need, the fight or flight, kill or be killed, sex and food of thing that fuels the success of negative ads. any shrink will tell you that. not a political scientist, but a string " so you why the politica

unnecessary expenses, unqualified personnel, fell language, in effect of hiring, unauthorized expenses, inappropriate work behavior, catastrophic failure, a perceived cronyism, favoritism. how would you grade your performance on a scale of one to 100? >> i think this report is a clear indication that the program needs a whole lot of work on it. but i do not think it entirely recognizes what we have done, and i am not being apologist, but i think it indicates that we have some major challenges which we are prepared to address. >> unauthorized use of money. is there criminal activities that have taken place? >> those are issues that we're looking into. >> if you discover it possible criminal activity -- perhaps if that turned out to be the results of these reviews, the answer to that, of course, is yes. we have an obligation to you at a to the american public to do that. >> i in terms of what you're facing, what else are we missing from this memo? is this a car rented sieve -- is this comprehensive? >> sir, you're asking me to say what the unknowns are here. i am not saying that this mem

used the dollars to train and continue to train folks to take positions that they were formally unqualified for. we have an award winning program around the employment of veterans which is a special concern, given how many veterans are returning from the two wars that we've been engaged in. i'm sure that -- that this committee is capable of making that a stronger and better law. but i, again, will reiterate that it needs to be sustained. flexibility is okay as long as flexibility is not coupled with a reduction in the funds that are made available. i think both governor -- the governor of michigan and myself are capable of directing those funds to be properly spent in our states. we both identified a common problem that we recognize. so i just would really urge the committee to get its job done. and let's get a law renewed, and let's make sure that those dollars are flowing to our states so that we can put people back to work and train them properly. >> well, you need to know that in the 13 years that we've operated with that 1998 wea act, we saw lack of accountability and we saw that in so

requiring that low income students and students of color be taught at a higher rate by inexperienced, unqualified, or out of field teachers. we know that we can't close the achievement gap if we don't also close the teacher quality gap. now i don't have the experience of many of the teachers and principals who work on the ground every day. but i am a board member, a trustee of the educational testing service. the educational testing service is a nonprofit corporation, has launched a series symposium and seminar. and highly academic and a deeper dive, they identify a number of elements that lead to actually reducing the achievement gap between students. but all of them are based on the core principle of accountability. it is indispensable to advancing the common goals that we have about closing the achievement gaps and maintaining our company's competitiveness in the global economy. so i think it's fair to say, and without hyperbole, that the provisions in the bill that we have focused on with greatest concern really represent the de facto end of a national accountability system as we have come to

and they have all been caught using trainers that are unqualified and known to make islamic statements and dangerous generalisations let's go back to tennessee in this specific case the instructor in question here is named john doe he's a retired f.b.i. agent who resigned following a sex scandal and since that scandal won a little has become the vice president.

you say it is striking how unqualified obama is and how this whole thing came about within the democratarty party. nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy. >> yeah. we always thought growing up that it would b

and they have all been caught using trainers that are unqualified and known to make anti islamic statements and dangerous generalisations let's go back to tennessee in this specific case the instructor in question.

he said she was unqualified. it's not his role to say who the democratic witness should be or what their qualifications are. and when you have an important health care issue that affects tens of millions of women, it's very appropriate. and i would say necessary to have a woman on the panel. >> and you make the point, this was a health care issue. issa came back writing this letter to democrats saying, quote, as this hearing is not about reproductive rights but freedom of religion, ms. fluke is not an appropriate witness. >> the hearing was about women. and women's access to preventive health care and insurance coverage to provide that health care on a whole range of areas, including reproduction and contraception. this was totally about women's access to health insurance. it was about insurance companies providing access to contraception, which happens to be the law, kyra, in 28 states. >> so what's next, congresswoman? >> what's next? we are going to go back and continue working for fairness and justice for wom

not only did they deny us the right to have our witness, finding her unqualified because she wanted toabout contraception, it means they were violating our first amendment rights to talk about that aspect of the controversy that is what most women and most families were concerned about. it had the appearance of an autocratic romp hearing. i think they didn't deserve my presence. somebody had to come out and talk about what kind och hef he this was. i w i had a lot of experience on accommodation. it means just that. accommodate to the religion but never by violating the rights of others. the president came up with a terrific compromise. one that means religious affiliated institutions will pay not one dime for contraception in the insurance policies and women low pressure get the contraceptives that they have been using all along. >> congressman issa said it was rejected because she was not found to be appropriate or qualified to testify about religious liberty. >> yeah. the religious liberty was not religious liberty in the abstract. it was about religious affiliated institutions, not

wasn't in 2008 and it's about government control of healthcare and governor romney is uniquely unqualifiedttle to the president of the united states. >> greta: another comment that came up today in the sound bite, i'm trying to understand it. i want you to explain. the dangers of contraception. what did you mean by that? does the government have any role at all in contraception? i understand, but what are danger of contraception? are you in any way, are you going to interfere with a couple's right to contraception? >> no, of course not. i haven't in all my years. it's a legal product. i have no problems with that. the bottom line when i talked about during the debate. what is happening in our culture with the breakdown of the family and children having children out of wednesday lock. we wedlock. what is going on with 40% of american children being born out of wedlock because of the huge sexual activity outside of marriage. i saw this as part of a whole series of issues related to the breakdown of the family. that is what i said i would talk about and i have talked about in the is on course

. >> governor romney is uniquely unqualified. >> he's not a bad person. ♪ for purple mountain ma jestiesd plain ♪ ♪ america, america >> let's get right to it this tuesday afternoon. joining me is dr. james peterson. dr. peterson, mr. hoekstra said there's nothing racial in that ad. are we watching the same ad? >> maybe he's not liking the same ad. it's more than just -- >> he approved that one. he said this is me. >> racism turns people's ears off. let's think about the anti-china sentiment. we want to demonize kmie th izi best way going forward is diplomacy. this ad flies in the face of that. it's dangerous in the sense we don't need to be putting out political messages that continue to demonize china. china is one of our most economic partners. >> he could say that, wouldn't he? he's african-american? what did you think? >> i thought it was offensive. it's going to be an indication of things to coming. romney is starting to take a hard line on china. he said that on day one he would declare china a currency manipulator. we do need more cooperation and there's a difference between that

the former pass mass governor's health care plan which he said positions mitt romney as uniquely unqualified to take on the president in health care reform in the fall campaign. >> just at an event with newt gingrich. he had kind words for senator santorum. some sort of white flag on the former speaker's part? >> well, maybe a white flag here in colorado and in minnesota for these tuesday caucuses. newt gingrich is going to be spending tuesday night in ohio. people might say why ohio? gingrich says he's going to be paying attention to those early voters in ohio the way he didn't do that in florida. he said about rick santorum that he thinks that rick santorum will have a pretty good day tomorrow here in the minnesota and colorado caucuses, which is an indication that perhaps some of these campaigns might be starting to think that will rick santorum could pull off a victory in one of these states. right after that the of gingrich avai avail ended, i said do you think you could pull off a victory in one of these states. did he say that he thinks mitt romney will again underperform. that is a m

the young woman who testified today is the young woman who, darrell issa, chairman issa said was unqualified to testify about her need for birth control at the same time he had a panel of five men talking about women's access to contraceptions. so we were very happy she was able to come to the hill today. >> i'll give you the last word, senator lucas. it's your day. >> yes, sir. reverend sharpton, all minority leaders saying on the floor yesterday that these right wing republicans if they could, they would turn back the 20th century. >> congresswoman degente and senator lucas, good night and good luck. >> thank you. we need it. >>> ahead -- republicans are blaming president obama for high gas prices. but he fired back today in a major way. and how about this one. a republican lawmaker in wisconsin who is worried about voter fraud is caught on tape committing voter fraud. unbelievable. stay with us. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. sie

the bottom line is because of his record in massachusetts on healthcare, he is uniquely unqualified toe on barack obama on a bill that's identical to the bill he supported and to say i'm guns it only because it's a federal program instead of a state program is not the best way to make the case that government-run healthcare is a bad idea. >> i was watching some of the interviews you were giving this weekend and it's interesting because president obama said republicans want dirty air, water, kids with down syndrome and autism to fend for themselves. i never saw such outrage butch you said the president was a snob and it is like the worse thing they have ever heard. let me play the tape. >> president obama said he wanted everybody in america to go to college. what a snob. there are good, decent, men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to task that aren't taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them. >> a lot of people, let's see, mechanics, computer people, i can go through a whole, electricians, plumbers. >> military. >> some people

the core of what's at stake in this country, why would we put someone out there who is uniquely unqualified to make that case? >> so we've still got a turnout operation going on. mitt romney, larry, is at the superior organization here as in other states and what rick santorum hopes is that some of those inflammatory comments he's made may comp state by stirring up some of those conserve tich christians, evangelicals or tvangelicals. many that cross over from the tea party. >> thanks for this. now let's turn to republican senior strategist steve schmitt. he was top dog in the mccain campaign in 2008. steve, welcome back to the show. >> you're welcome, larry. >> i want to ask you about president obama a minute. president obama talking to the uaw says this, my bailouts of the car business saved detroit, saved michigan and saved the economy and steve, we are getting better consumer confidence and we are getting better jobs. the dow is over 13,000. let me just ask you, can obama really be beaten in a better economy? >> well, larry, it's a closely-divided nation. it continues to be, this has bee

it is striking how unqualified obama is and how this whole thing came about within the democratic partynobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy. host: -- guest: we thought would be difficult for a black man or woman to be elected president. rush says just the opposite. it is total trash. rush also called president obama -- at any rate. he is one of the biggest name callers against president obama. he called in a jack ass on the radio. he has been called a communist, socialist, liar, a terrorist. every kind personal attack. nothing to do with his politics. if you do not like the way he wants to fix the economy, fine. put another approach on the table. whatever. that is what we ought to be doing. not calling him a. host: if you look at what has been written by president washington, is there any difference between what they said about our first president and what people say on radio today about our current president? guest: i never said anything like that about george w. bush. let me tell you, george bush loves this country. i know he was trying to do what he thought was b