scientology has strenuously denied that it forces its members to quote, unquote, disconnect with anybodyeads the faith. cut all ties, even with loved ones. one woman says the church turned it into a choice between her son and her daughter. >>> this is the image that most people have of scientology, tom cruise, john travolta and kirstey alley who lauded the religion as helping themselves out in their mind. this woman may have a less recognizable face, but she was a long-tim member who was coming forward with a very different story about scientology. >> i'm speaking out now because i don't want this to happen to other people. i don't want this to happen to other families. >> reporter: she blames the church for breaking apart her family effectively, she says, forcing her to choose between her son and daughter. >> no mother should ever have to make that choice. they were giving me a sophie's choice, and it's not right. >> reporter: shi says she spent 36 years in the church, founded by l. ron hubbard and she and her husband both reached the top level of spiritual progression known as operatin

and finally, we see another attempt to define, quote, tax reform, unquote, as a process of raising taxes in order to fuel more federal spending while closing whatever the administration deems to be a, quote, loophole, unquote, in the tax code. based in part on rosy economic assumptions the administration believes that its proposals will reduce our high debt-to-gdp ratio. but to get there, and to help full ill fitz tax and spend objectives, the budget envisions well over $1 trillion of additional taxes in the face of a persistently sluggish economy. i think that bears repeating. president obama's latest budget contains more than a trillion dollars in proposed tax hikes. the administration claims that it has for years now, that these additional revenues are needed to restore fiscal responsibility andry deuce the deficit as part of a, quote/unquote, balanced approach. however, we need to look at the facts. let's consider the deficit reduction that has occurred since the high deficit watermark achieved in fiscal year 2009. from the deficit of over $1.4 trillion in that year, the deficit fell

russia calls it quote/unquote rubbish. crimea's vice premiere says this is the crimea spring, where the people of the peninsula can finally make their own choice. about which country they call home. already a lot of lies, but as samantha powers said to the u.n. today -- well, here's her point of view. >> it is a fact that russian military forces have taken over ukrainian border posts. it is a fact that russia has taken over the ferry terminal in kirsch. it is a fact that russian ships are moving in and around sevastopol. >> those are the facts, reported by u.s. intelligence. and of course, tonight, president obama is threatening sanctions against russian president, vladimir putin. congress, of course, is needed for those. which is why the fact that the senate's top democrat is not on board matters. harry reid told the magazine, politico, quote, the most important thing for us, the united states, so to make sure that we don't go off without the european community. we have to work with them. their interests are really paramo

these -- quote -- patches -- unquote -- have frequently been cobbled together at the midnight hour by the leadership of both parties and included in larger legislation without the input of the members or even going through the regular legislative process. now, this perverse annual dark of night ritual has to stop. seniors and physicians understand that. republicans and democrats in the house and senate understand that. for the better part of the year, congress, to the sacrifice of many, worked to fully repeal the s.g.r. and replace it with more reasonable reforms that moved medicare's physician fee for service reimbursement system towards a system that rewards doctors for providing quality care based on outcomes, and we have made tremendous progress. senator baucus and i worked for months on a bill that sailed through the finance committee on a bipartisan basis. the two relevant house committees passed bipartisan legislation, repealing the s.g.r. as well. then in a turn of events as all too rare these days, the chairman and ranking members of the senate finance committee, the house wa

allow them to in the words of the white house press secretary -- quote -- "pursue their dreams" -- unquote -- courtesy of their fellow taxpayers. while economists and the administration and liberal pundits might applaud the reduced labor supply arising from obamacare, it is to say the least difficult for me to find merit in the resulting reduction in economic growth. of course there's nothing in the president's budget that would address this issue. if anything, the policies contained in this new round of proposals would make all of this worse. returning to the latest call for well over $1 trillion of new revenue, the administration clairnlings aclaims, as it has , that these tax hikes are needed to restore fiscal responsibility and reduce the deficit as part of a -- quote, unquote -- "balanced approach." however, we need to look at the facts. if you look at the deficit reduction that has taken place over the last five years, you will see just how unbalanced this approach is. in fiscal year 2009, we achieved a high deficit watermark of $1.4 trillion. that number fell to a still high $680 bi

unquote. in a resignation letter obtained by science insider, david wright, director of the office o.r.i., integrity, which oversees and monitors possible research misconduct offers a scathing rebuke of the unwieldy and inefishen bureaucracy that he dealt with for the -- inefficiency bureaucracy that he dealt with for the two years in his position. in his letter wright explains that the 35% of his job that was spent working with science investigators in his department, quote, it's been one of the greatest pleasures of my long career, unquote. the majority of his duties, however, represented his worst job ever. quote, the rest of my role as o.r.i. director has been the very worst job i ever had and it occupies up to 65% of my time. that part of the job is spent navigating the remarkably dysfunctional h.h.s. bureaucracy to secure resources and, yes, get permission for o.r.i. to serve the research community. i knew coming into this job about the bureaucratic limitations of federal government, but

can't keep doing the same thing and we have to set aside the doildz and so next month i'll quote-unquote the developers and city departments and tenant advocates and realtors and prosperity owns. i'll are is having ask them to achieve the goals of rerehabbed homes by 20/205 and implement this plan. you know, ladies and gentlemen, i know we can do it because in the relatively short life of our city we've faced and overcome 2k5u7b9ing challenges i'm not talking about earthquake from the gold rush to the building of railroads through wars and lib ration movement the story of san francisco is one of rapid spurts of growth. it's a story of new industries and steroids that brought people more than most places santa fe san francisco has represented. over the time we grew west and south turning cemeteries and a sand dunes like the western edition and the sunset. today, we grow in places like the shipyard and the new transbay district or along our waterfront like pier 70. whether it was the irish who come to pan for 0 gold or the african-american who came to work in the shipyard or latinos with w

a senior obama official tells me they are, quote, very concerned, unquote. russian troops may attempt another land grab and that could be eminent. so what is putin's next move? good afternoon, everybody. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we'll begin with the mystery of flight 370 and the 239 people on board that it was carrying and it enters its third week. we're getting a clear picture of what transpired on board. from before takeoff to the very last verbal check-in, that now haunting "all right, good night." the british telegraph says they have gotten ahold of the final 54 minutes of communication from the plane. remember, investigators believe the cockpit computer could have been reprogrammed to fly off course before the plane ever left the ground so the plane may have been sabotaged during or even before the 54-minute time. this is the hottest lead yet. satellite images showing potential debris. malaysia has asked the u.s. for more help, including remotely operated submersibles to help with the search. the u.s. has spent $2.5 million on the search

act during this boom time to toss folks out of their home it's unfair and has to challenge quote/unquote. it's my job in the coming months to meet one-on-one with my colleagues in the states loufrg to explain to them the unique situation we're facing and to make the fact the ellis act didn't serve the entire state it does ♪ baker's field one size does not fit all. i'm going to ask them to address it as i would work with them to address a unique problem in in your district with that, i want to again not only introduce but sincerely thank mayor ed lee for stepping up to the plate and recognizing that this ooshlt crisis is a top priority for his administration go working to get this bill in print and to say that his support and assistance i believe will make the difference in getting this bill to jerry brown desk but signed by jerry brown that i mayor ed lee thank you (clapping.) >> thank you senator but thank you for championship so many of our issues. good morning everyone and thanks for coming for the steep slope indicts going to get worse. we've been patient but we understand now that t

and evidentially when they catch me and quote/unquote let me slide it almost puts me to tears. but imagine when i'm 18 to me it's just another day i'm still going to have their support and still in high school until i graduate. the only differences i'll have to pay $2 more and on top of that the scholarships and my home situation am i going it to have a place to stay. my story is not that bad for comparison to others. the fro minnesota benefits me around san francisco. the reason i don't have to feel like a criminal. it gives me appeased of mind >> (clapping) >> thank you next speakers. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon, everyone i'm rossi i'm 16 a sophomore at the balboa high school. i'm here to talk about the coalition between power and the advocates. we support fro muni for youth we need this pilot program a permanent. we also support 18 years old that are in high school there's a lot of seniors that are 18 i know when i'm a senior in high school i'll be 18 i have 6 plus months to go i probably won't have a car or licensee need this program especially with a lot of youth

but for those who might take advantage of this, quote-unquote, fix, it's important to remember that this is not a restoration of the president's promise, this is merely extending the stay of execution until safely after the november election. i mean, it's so very clear what the democrats are trying to do here. i don't suspect it's going to work for them, though. >> you know, i wonder what a lot of companies do in the meantime, guy, because they're not slaves of any political calendar here, they're just going to tell their workers and a lot of them, you know, the accountant guys who are neither left nor right are just in to make money or save money, they're going to telegraph to workers what you've gotten used to is going to change, you might pay more, you might pay less or you won't have it at all. for millions of people things are going to change, and i don't know about you, but a lot of folks don't like change especially when it stands to reason they'll pay more for it. >> especially when they were told nothing would change, right? they weren't told hey, you know, you're going to be co

this incident happened more often than realized and swept under the rug quote/unquote back in the dayw there is a zero tolerance policy. secret service taking the hit but believing taking no action would have been worse than taking the action that they did. >> it's one of these things that almost looks like lack of institutional control to use a sports term for this to come so quickly after what happened in columbia. >> it takes a while for the culture to change. this is a reminder of that. there was a long culture here, sort of what goes on the road stays on the road mentality. it is clearly not done yet. >> chuck todd, we will come to you i believe later in the show. let's get a quick break in. today's trivia question includi including north dakota and south dakota how many states have the minimum possible of electoral votes. the first person to tweet the answer will get an on-air shout out. i got the guy who won yesterday's name right. i hope i get your name right today. if i can impart one lesson to a new business owner, it would be one thing i've learned is my philosophy is real

the things that were said i couldn't type fast enough but there was small business who was quote/unquotepresenterer of the award and when it came to commissioner vice president brandon the four people who were up on the stage with her insisted on saying something about her. that's the best praise no one was going to be silent on commissioner vice president brandon. commissioner vice president brandon was characterized as one of our own a strong woman who has advocated for community development and she works to make if better. commissioner vice president brandon is dedicated to the l best recollection e community and is our champion she's the pulses of what's going on she's tireless pr i wish i could give you the entire thing but we'll load it up and commissioner vice president brandon also made remarks and they were outstanding and she was able to talk about the various accomplishments along the way and her corrosive for the port to be one of the leaders in this area and also if i will brag about your leasing opportunity that will be coming to you for approval and our rfp we hope to have

her feelings about school this is what we do >> as maggie grew so did her personality she was quote/unquote non-verbal no one brought more energy and enthusiasm many if this was particularly true when it came school and her teachers aspired her she couldn't wait to go to school. maggie so you no reason for holiday breaks she had a 4.0 gapping to keep up. you should note that maggie was secreting lobbying to eliminate all school breaks. i can't tell you how much energy and convince you gave to maggie. maggie was so excited and proud to go through congratulation and there's nothing more existing than to go to prom. she was dancing and (laughter) it made my rib cage ache. she didn't need a garden she knew what she wanted to do. this was perhaps one of the most important gifts she taught us to focus on what was really important and didn't care whether you had a bad day another working or what you did for a living. casey doesn't know that maggie didn't like testify forest fire but matthews favorite holiday was halloween it was mag i didn't see christmas. she started with her big grin when he whe

they will use quote-unquote a mix of labor market indicators.e we're not going to understand a word they are talking about. that, therefore, guidance is -- it's going to be more opaque than fed speak usually is. therefore, no one will know what the hell is going on. >> again, i don't disagree with you. they are doing exactly what they are made to do. when the going gets going the tough get going. they put out this number that was quantitative and shift back to a qualitative approach. >> we won't know anything. they should use the dollar gold commodity price, the yield curve. let markets tell them. what you're going to get is gobblygoos from the fed. >> it's completely and totally over-engineered. the process is they will lose credibility. >> it hill hurt growth. >> there's a good argument that interest rates will be lower by the end of the year. >> thank you gentlemen. appreciate it. now we're going to go to stocks. eked out some small gains. pretty good week on wall street. we'll tell you what you like and don't like. i'm kudlow and we'll be ri

unquote. there is no doubt as to mumia abu-jamal's guilt. afterwards he bragged about shooting daniel faulkner, and four witnesses saw the shooting. after being convicted and sentenced, mumia's lawyers filed dozens of appeals on his behalf which would suggest he had more than adequate legal representation. however, almost 28 years after his conviction, mr. adegbile decided to volunteer his time to assist mumia. in a series of phraoepls and precedents -- appeals and precedents mr. adegbile's organization called into question the law enforcement officer responsible for mr. mumia's sentence and called it relic of a time and place notorious for police abuse and discrimination. as a philadelphia district attorney opposition letter states, mr. adegbile's work on the case -- quote -- "sends a message of contempt to police officers who risk their lives every day to maintain the peace." the d.a. concluded that mr. adegbile is -- quote -- "ill-suited for the pivotal role in the justice department." unquote. these appalling facts in this case are well

so i think it's not proper to stay focused on the, quote unquote, men on the down low.nd it stigmatizes behavior. what are people doing to put themselves at risk? they are having unprotected sex with people who are hiv positive, people who don't know their status or are not talking about their status. so i think we have to move away from the labels on people. >> true. and sometimes people shift their behavior based on fear of stigmas, which is what i want to talk about when we come back. the fear of what others might thing can keep you from getting help. why confronting hiv is harder in black communities. >> tv is no longer one way, with "the stream" second screen app. get excuse if app content, receive graphs, quizzes, and quest information. interact with other app users in real time. you can be our third co-host, vote, tweet, record video comments and we'll feature them on air. use our app and drive the community's discussions on live tv. download >> al jazeera america presents extrodanary documentaries. colin comes from a long line of ferrymen. >> you're a riverman f

. >> he said, i quote, it it scared the crap out of me, unquote. this shark keeps coming back at him. luckily he's got this prong poking at him. >> the shark doesn't stop. it keeps coming back at him multiple times. >> it got close. it got really close. >> it's really coming at him. >> yes. aggressive. >> luckily, we have the video and le tells the tale, i'm figuring out he's okay but, boy, this is something he's not going to forget anytime soon. >> i wonder if the fish he had in the canister attracted the shark. >> he dropped the canister and the shark is circling that canister down there. >> he left his gear. so afraid he just got out of there. >> he's 70 feet down. you can see he's look at his instrument there's. the shark is circling around like don't think about coming to get this bucket. >> it's the shark's world, you know? can't blame him. >> out to the dirt track for a little bit of racing. watching this red buggy, you need nick calderon to tell us what's going on, what buggy this is. it's a cool-looking buggy. >> it is. >> this fella's goi

caucus and the black caucus and made by executive order changes to immigration policy for more quote/unquote as humane deportation process? >> in a case like this, a political party wants to solidify its base and wants to make sure all of the base is ennews yak tnd ready to go. so i wouldn't be surprised to see the president and the white house concentrate on minorities, on women, on younger voters, on voters making less than $25,000 a year. that group that is really the foundation for the president's success. the problem is they don't turn out as much historically in midterm elections as they do in presidential year elections. so a lot of people think this may be looking more like 2010 when the voters didn't show up as much, republicans won a huge victory, than 2012 where they did show up. >> president was in new york this week laterally stopping traffic as he always does for two fundraisers. he can't run again, so what will he two with the money being raised and what does a candidate have to do to get a piece of that pie? >> listen to what dan pfeiffer said. he said the president will be r

. >> jon: are they feeling -- is there a bitterness there amongst those that were quote unquote goodhat feel left behind? >> there's a desire, i think, to hear the truth. there are two million iraq war veterans in the country and 4,000 families who lost somebody. when you look at wounded warriors, i think people who were part of it in some ways want to see those people and hear the truth. it has never been explained. [cheers and applause] >> jon: the question i have is there's been an undercurrent of this for ten years does he need be relentlessly told over and over again? who owns the history of this and how does that shape our perception of this and how have they tried to shape it in a manner that is much more positive to their perspective? >> i think the most insidious way they've tried to shape is to say let's not talk about this anymore. i know we never answered that question but let's let it go. the iraq war looms very large over the decisions we make now over national security. nobody wants to go to war against russia over this crimea thing. >> jon: i've been watching the news

robs the state of revenue and creates bear krarriers to econo growth, up quoe unquote.i command general dunford for ordering the doesn't. he doesn't full any punches. but takes a very hard look, and i highly recommend you all to read it, at the root causes of the pervasive corruption in afghanistan. including decisions made by the united states and its allies that have contributed to that problem. now, i'm going to spend a few minutes on just three of the study's main observations. they echo my auditors and investigators and what they have found over the years. in fact, some of general dunford's findings draw directly from sigar audits. but they also illuminate three critical themes relevant to what we and the afghans will face for 2014. first of all, the initial u.s. strategy in afghanistan not the only failed to recognize the significance of corruption. remember, this is dunford's study, but may have fostered a political climate conducive to corruption. the second theme is massive military and usaid and international aid spending overwhelmed the afghan government's ab

and not necessarily what's best for quote unquote europe. the thing that i think we have to really keep in mind here is that. recently when when the crane was sort of quote unquote overthrown you have to keep in mind it was democratically. voted on put in it was a government that was you know put in through normal diplomatic channels through through voting and so forth and so on and then all the sudden you know it looks to me like sort of thugs with fire bombs start fire bombing the whole city and who these people are and where they came from it's really a questionable you know subject and then all this god and you know this government is toppled. i certainly think that you know that there is. the point of why couldn't they have you know sort of use proper diplomatic means to change the government which is what we always hope for and. you know so. i just think it's very very interesting that there's all this you know kind of funny stuff happened right before the olympics you know. so why do you think the u.s. the so interested in this part o

i therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase america's debt limit, unquote. today america's debt is over $18 trillion with a t. clearly president obama has forgotten senator obama's words. but the american people remember and on their behalf as president obama -- ask president obama to decrease our debt by working with congress to end the debt tax by growing our economy and shipping american natural gas to friendly countries like ukraine, like india, like japan, like south korea. yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. neal, for five minutes. mr. neal: thank you, mr. speaker. permission to address the house for five minutes. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. neal: mr. speaker, as the world prepares to celebrate saint patrick's day, and this afternoon we welcome the irish prime minister here to the capitol, i want to pause for a moment to recognize the anniversary of a pivotal event in the peace process in the north of ireland. 20 years ago against the advice of

interestingly in the last several decades, there has been some talk in the united states about quote, unquote tough jews, the idea of the schtoker, at least in the elephantine, the idea that they have mercanary soldiers, get me some jews. >> in 18th century london, which i am writing about now, there were roughnecks, the safadi jews that brought fish and chips to the med traiterranean world. they were kind of debt enforcers really. there was a kind of jewish soprano gang basically. i actually wrote an he is say about the first great sports celebrity in i think the history a jewish boxer known as mendoza, the jew. he was a tough and devious fighter. he incorrected the uppercut, actually, we are told. he was attacked by christian boxers as being typically a jew would always hit you from down below up top. there is this side to our existence as well as you say, the studous philosophers and poets and men over mind. >> time and again, you bring us back to scholars and readers and writers because here is this culture they collision of three continents that is not aculture of images of statutes and

so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity and enjoyed by those happy few, unquote. pope francis is a spiritual leader of 75 million catholics. according to a new wall street journal pop, 55% of americans have a favorable view of pope francis. among catholics, 60% say pope francis has strengthened their faith and commitment to the catholic church. mr.obama may be hoping that some of that popularity rubs off on him. with only six months to go before november's midterm election, the latest ap poll shows mr. obama's disapproval rating has reached an all-time high of 59%. his approval rating remains at 41%. among the core constituencies whose faith in obama is slipping notably hispanic many are catholic. >> question, will the meeting between the pope and the president have any bearing on this year's u.s. november elections, six months from now? eleanor. >> it helps when the pope is on your side when you are talking about income and quality and about immigration. i think the pope is firmly on that side so i think the president can invoke his views and i think the pope is

unquote. and now i'm quoting from his diary, account of what he did. this is the undersecretary of state in the vatican, quote, here i cut a word, there i add another. here i modify a sentence, there i erase another. unquote. and the text of the pope's remarks that appears the next day in the vatican newspaper have no reference to his opposition to the invasion of ethiopia. now it is in the years following the ethiopian campaign that mussolini began increasingly to embrace hitler. they had a very peculiar relationship. we can talk about more later. of course hitler saw mussolini as his role model. in the 1920s he kept a big bust of mussolini in his office in munich. the beer hall was modeled on the march on rome and so forth. but, after he comes, after hitler cops to power mussolini initially views him, he is pleased, he is is flattered by the fact he is looked up to by this new chancellor of germany but he also thinks hitler is a bit crazed and has his doubts about hitler. even greater doubts

and apple's, quote, cool, unquote.nquote, quote, your choice. >> if the company were run properly, those are also key words in that sentence. >> coming from the guy that ran the company. that's the problem with microsoft. they've had a tremendous amount of products. they had skype, who even uses skype anymore? apple, with facetime, has taken that over. they've eaten their lunch. that's the problem with the execution. in terms of the stock on microsoft, you can get a dividend out of it. you're not going to get hurt in it. and for apple, maybe it's the kiss of death having ballmer saying it's cool. >> to have they had a nice run recently. this is more than a nice run recently. a decade of building the most profitable, the most expensive company in the world. that's a nice run. >> microsoft has been sideways. there's no question it was an outperformer. if you look at it going forward, apple, this is a question. i'm not saying this is where apple is. but this is a question that people have been asking about apple. are they

they are on the brink of quote/unquote disaster.reds of russian soldiers form an ukrainian military base in crimea. secretary of state john kerry flat out calling it an invasion. >> russia chose a brazen action and moved in on its forces with a completely trumped up set of

the whole town cried at last, unquote, the emperor has no clothes. if this would be an objective analysis, i personally am skeptical of that. the mayor has a certain position of it. these are his own staff. these are paid by him. this is going to be an objective [inaudible]. >> thank you. i have two other speaker cards. henry [speaker not understood]. and dennis marscopian. >>> hi, my name is pat valentino, i live in the south beach neighborhood here as a community volunteer supporting the resolution to study this measure further. i'm very concerned. i read the port's analysis, 23 acres of open space last 00 affordable housing units delayed lost. 4700 potential loss of rental housing without displacement. i'm very confused. why can't we go to the departments in the city that understand the effects, get information from them, and disclose that to the public? i'm very confused as to why this is being held up. i think it needs to move forward very quickly. this is extremely important. we're in the middle of a housing affordability crisis. we have people