it is in that role that valerie has forged community partnership and developed a working model with youth that not only has helped youth, but has developed leadership in youth. due to her ongoing commitment to this leadership model, her staff well under the age of 30 at the mission beacon and she saw her role as developing their skills, inabilities while they acted as role models for younger people. in that role, she was tagged mamma bear and this name was given to her because she growl at the youth when necessary. but at the same time she protected her young with fierceness and courage. we're not entirely clear how city agencies come to decide when to change the management or the structure of a program, but we are grateful for the incredible work that valerie has done at the mission beacon for the last six years. a little bit about valerie history. she was born in houston texas and moved to san francisco's mission district when she was 13 years old. she went to horse man at mission high schools. and because of the extreme poverty, her family moved to sunny dale for six years until she mo

melissa mcgee has an fyi for you. >> reporter: valerie rushmore owner of studio 1841 has been teachingelly dancing for over 20 years. >> the real joy beside from teaching movement is see people blossom. it's an age old performance that is both a sensuos workout. >> you're developing more strength, more grace, more alignment. it really tones the entire body. >> reporter: but it's more than just a workout. >> it gives women specifically a different relationship with their body. >> you don't have to be thin, you don't have to be young, you don't have to be any particular type of person. >> reporter: valerie has belly dancing classes every week ranging from beginner to advanced. >> belly danceing is really your own dance. you learn the movements and then you just flow. >> more belly dancing on fyi philly saturday 7:00 p.m. time right now 5:47 and up next a look at what may be the toughest window cleaning job in america. >> also how one young girl survived a tragic fire in florida. karen. >> we're turning up the heat, we're turning up the humidity as well and as we look at the accuweather a

has taken on a life of its own. we have their touching and colorful story. >> reporter: it was ten months ago that valerie's life was turned upside down with some very bad medical news. the time since has been filled with many unpleasant surprises but one very nice one. as you'll see in tonight's bay area proud, the thanks of the kindness of strangers keeps on giving. as hard as the doctors and nurses try to make it otherwise, valerie's twice monthly therapy infusion are not all that pleasant. from the moment with the needle to the hours of nothing, there's not much to make her smile. which is why it's so great that should valerie need a smile, all she has to do is look at the purple polish at the tips of her toes. >> there you go. >> reporter: and think of the story behind them. >> it's something fun to get through this experience. >> reporter: valerie's experience began last august. it was just about a month before her wedding to long time partner ralph when doctors told her the cough that nagged her for more than three years was something very serious, stage iv lung cancer. >> just devastating to receive that dia

there is not much to make her smile, which is why it is so great that should valerie need a smile, all she has is look at the purple polish at the tips of her toes and think of the story behind them. it's just something fun. >> valerie's experience began last august. it was just about a month before her wedding when doctors told valerie the cough that had nagged her for more than three ye year, was something very serious. stage 4 lung cancer. >> that's just devastating. >> the month that followed was a dark time. but that is when hopes of raising her spirits just a little, ralph took valerie to get a pedicure. system. >> thoo's because after ralph posted a picture of their purple-painted toes, a remarkable thing happened. their friends started doing the same followed by complete strangers who had heard about what ralph had done. 00 drepds upon hundreds of them. all painting their toes and spending their pictures just to make valerie smile. >> it really touches myhearted.m i want it to be really big. >> it has, though, become everyone more than that. with the help of friends, these wonderful ge

and i who had this job before as valerie aims has now, the president relief coordinator feel very much that it's very sad that basic law is now subject to political negotiations. we hope very much that the government understands that they have to open up and we have to be led by human imperatives. >> there's no indication that happens if assad wins. >> after all, he went to his own people to get the confidence in the vote, and these are his people. and these people are suffering. so we hope very much that we have access to all of the country and very soon. we are working very hard. discussions are going on with the syrians, with the government, with the opposition and with the members of the security council who are discussing a resolution. >> jan, thanks for joining us on gmt. let's catch up with other news today. and staying in the region of afghan, the military in pakistan says two soldiers have been killed and three wounded when two border posts with afghanistan came under fire on wednesday. follows an incident on sunday when pakistani forces killed 16 suspected militants. >>> the

it's such an interesting relationship, cynthia that valerie jarrett has with the president, friend andfidant and she is kind of a key voice in connecting him to the outside world beyond the white house. >> absolutely right, david. of course, one of her -- part of her portfolio is to be a bridge, to be a -- create broad alliances with the business community and with state and local governments. she says she takes that very seriously. she is working hard to bring diverse voices into the white house. one of the meetings that i attended with her was with local business leaders from around the world who are trying to become more family friendly. one of the business leaders said that they give every employee $3,000 every year and force them to take a family vacation with it. interesting. >> good idea. cynthia, thanks so much. >>> coming up here on our special panel discussion with bill clinton than you won't see anywhere else, and a fast food faux pas, how the president says he never gets caught in overreach, like president obama did. >> always successfully avoided being photographed. [ laug

which is why it is so great that should valerie need a smile, all she has to do is look at the purplehe story behind them. >> it's just something fun to get through this experience. >> reporter: valerie's experience began last august. it was just about a month before her wedding to long-time partner ralph when doctors told valerie the cough that had nagged her for more than throw years was something very serious, stage four lung cancer. >> it's just devastating to receive that diagnosis. >> reporter: the month that followed was a dark time, valerie admits. but that is when, with hopes of raising her spirits just a little, ralph took valerie to get a pedicure. she went with her favorite color, purple. then so did ralph. >> he said he'd do his toes purple as well to make me smile. >> hoped. it seemed to work, though. you were laughing pretty good, though, so that was nice. >> it turned out to be the first of many smiles. after ralph posted a picture of their painted toes, a remarkable thing happened. their friends started doing the same, followed by complete strangers, who had heard abo

what's so palpatable now is that the president has checked out. valeriehe president's top advise ser talking about how the president suffers from cabin fever and can't wait to get out. i think that's the real story here is the president is already kind of tuned out of being president and wants to focus on fundraising and building his library and developing a post presidential career. >> do you think that's fair? >> totally unfair. >> do you think the media will hold this administration accountable with critical reporting on what is happening now? >> the media should hold not only this administration accountable but where was the intelligence community in all of this? they didn't see it coming. what do they know and who did they inform about it? media didn't hold the government accountable when we started this war in 2003. proper questions were not asked. i keep wanting to know, what do we win in iraq? what do we win in afghanistan? those questions have never been answered in the 12, 13, 14 years we've been a nation at war. >> jim? >> alan is right. this i

in the few minutes valerie speaks with us he has twenty one missed calls on his cell phone appearance terrified of what the future holds but even more afraid to stay around and find out policy r.t. lugansk eastern ukraine. meanwhile the u.s. is pushing a crane to break away from russian energy supplies and look for other sources and while creating demand on one hand the white house office apply as well except for one tiny detail it doesn't have the goods just yet because much of the u.s. export hopes and dreams hinge on the amount of shale based resources it can produce and for several years geologists believe one of the largest oil and gas deposits in california here was a real game changer and it predicted to create nearly three million jobs and boost tax revenues by almost twenty five billion dollars a year but it's scenes that was wishful thinking because authorities now say the amount of recoverable oil due to the imperfections of fracking technology is actually ninety six percent lower report now reports on how this could hurt america's energy expansion plans. the crisis in ukra

in the few minutes valerie speaks with us he has twenty one missed calls on his cell phone parents terrified of what the future holds but even more afraid to stay around and find out policy r.t. lugansk eastern ukraine the man nato says it is reviewing a wide range of requests from the ukrainian government for its clampdown in the east including lethal aid political analyst no beauchemin it says the decision to supply armaments to the conflict torn country would only deepen the crisis if anybody was really interested in. deescalating this issue and trying to diffuse it they would have stopped with military shipments they would have tried to demand of kiev to negotiate but no the signals we see from are from the west to kiev or kill kill kill get these people destroyed as quickly as possible while at the same time they're accusing russians completely without any basis of having troops or smuggling in supporters of smiley in weapons these are completely scurrilous charges and you also have to keep in mind that according to the current morality prevalent in the west when the government backed b

in the few minutes valerie speaks with us he has twenty one missed calls on his cell phone parents terrified of what the future holds but even more freedom to stay around and find out policy r.t. lugansk eastern ukraine. anti-government fighters say they've managed to bring down an army surveillance plane in the latest fighting in east ukraine if the six military aircraft appeared this week according to the activists combat is raging around the city of slovyansk air strikes have now left the city without electricity that's after water supplies were damaged in earlier fights. nato says it's reviewing a wide range of requests from the ukrainian government for its climb down in the east including lethal aid but with oil as the boys are mileage says a decision to supply or moments to the conflict torn country would only deepen the crisis. if anybody was really interested in. deescalating this issue and tried to diffuse it they would have stopped with the military shipments deal would have tried to demand of kiev to negotiate but no the signals we see from are from the west to kiev or kill kill k

in the few minutes valerie speaks with us he has twenty one missed calls on his cell phone parents terrified of what the future holds but even more afraid to stay around and find out policy r.t. lugansk eastern ukraine. very round about the developments now anti-government fighters said they've managed to bring down an army surveillance plane in the latest fighting in east ukraine it is the sixth military across the claims of it this week however the care of military said it wasn't an army plane but a transport plane carrying humanitarian aid airstrikes on the city of slovyansk have now left it with a critic of the water supplies were damaged in earlier attacks. nato says it's reviewing a wide range of requests from the ukrainian government for its clampdown on the east including lethal aid but it. says the decision to supply armaments to the conflict on country would only deepen the crisis. if anybody was really interested in. deescalating this issue and tried to diffuse it they would have stopped with the military shipments deal would have tried to demand of kiev to negotiate but now the s

in the few minutes valerie speaks with us he has twenty one missed calls on his cell phone parents terrified of what the future holds but even more afraid to stay around and find out policy r t lugansk eastern ukraine and a group of german that research institutes accuse is accusing the e.u. of playing a role in unleashing the crisis in the ukraine they say the european union made a mistake when presenting your brain with an either or choice of accepting the e.u. association agreement without more details from one of the reports the point this year with respect to the you that press ukraine for making a decision between russia would you want art or political or of the u.s. interest ukraine need the ukraine where you are in favor of this agreement but more so the e.u. approach this whole issue is. part of pretty. view. of the political committee into it so in that respect that played a role in the young over the government that. it could actually a premium on regime change and said you know those money will replace your income but president now there have been several cases of russian journal

valerie at the white house and the entire white house team and the department of labor which has had a fantastic team. valerie's absolutely right, we all have stories, everyone in this room and the people you represent, thousands upon thousands of people have a story. i have my own story. which is that, you know, when i had two young children, i had a son who was a year and a half, daughter was four and a half. i took a very high pressure job with a lot of time commitments to the job, and i had -- but i had a boss at that time who saw that i was struggling a little bit. and she rescheduled meetings around me, made sure she changed her schedule so i could have my responsibilities both as a parent and as a worker. she changed around the entire work culture to accommodate parents. and as secretary perez said, you know, i really felt like i won the boss lottery. but that's a real problem in this country. you shouldn't have to win the boss lottery. we should all have work situations where people recognize that when we are good workers and good parents, that's for the bottom line. [applause

humanitarian chief has worn 11 million syrians are in need of aid. valerie amos made an assessment in an trees to the security council. >> 241,000 live under siege conditions, unable to leave their communities, and we are unable to get in to deliver much-needed humanitarian assistance. sense my last briefing to the council, only 2,467 people, or 1% of those in besieged areas received much-needed food assistance. mr president, this level of obstruction is uphuman and goes against the bake commitment to human dignity and rights that u.n. member states agree to in chapter one, article one of the u.n. charter. >> across the border in iraq. the government has retaken the largest oil refinery, there has been competing claims, but the army released these pictures saying it proves they control the oil refinery. sunni fighters are reported to still be in control of the neighbouring town. >> the iraqi army launched on offensive to retake tikrit. more than 150 captive soldiers were escuted. the level of violence led to increasing pressure for prime minister nouri al-ma

with valerie at the white house and the entire white house team and the department of labor which hasad a fantastic team. valerie is absolutely right. we all have stories. everyone in this room and the people you represent, thousands upon thousands of people, have a story. i have my own story, which is that, you know, when i had two young children, i had a son who was a year and a half, daughter who was four and a half. i took a very high-pressure job with a lot of time commitments to the job, but i had a boss at that time who saw that i was struggling a little bit. and she rescheduled meetings around me, made sure -- she changed her schedule so i could have my responsibilities both as a parent and as a worker. she changed around the entire work culture to accommodate parents. and as secretary perez said, you know, i really felt like i won the boss lottery. but that's a real problem in this country. you shouldn't have to win the boss lottery. we should all have work situations where people recognize that when we are good workers and good parents, that's best for the bottom line. and t

has a pretty sturdy spine all on his own. >> reporter: we were given rare access to valerie jarrett this week, both at the white house summit on working families and a full day inside the west wing to probe her influence and the administration's priorities. so the president came in to office with an astounding approval rating, and it's now down to 41%. what happened? >> look, we're going through some tough times. i'll tell you something that i learned very early in the first campaign is that you just can't look at the daily polls. my goodness, if we listened to the polls, he would have abandoned the race in the middle of the primary session. >> reporter: is it harder to govern than you thought it would be? >> oh, much more so. i think one miscalculation that i made is i did not fully appreciate that the republicans in congress were going to just say no to everything. >> hello, everybody. >> reporter: her critics say because of her personal decades' long friendship with the obamas -- >> good to have you. >> thank you. >> reporter: -- she disrupts decisionmaking at the white house by weighing in on any topic of her choosing.

broke the 47% video which is certainly one of the biggest scoops of what has been a very will yous treeious career and the whole valeriehraeupl >> in your book anybody dis disappointed? >> i've received some in the social media world i've gotten some critiques from the left from people who said we're upset that i essentially humanized them too much but that's what my goal was to do. these guys had become these two-dimensional characters and i wanted to paint a full portrait of who these guys are. there are certain people who believe that they're evil and matter what and they're entitled to their opinion. but i certainly didn't come away with that notion at all. so, but no. i think the response to the book has been overwhelmingly good, better than i could have expected. >> did you ever get the sense that you were being investigated while were you doing your research? by the coke family? >> no. i got the sense that they were tracking the things that i was doing quite carefully. one thing that i do recall is that i interviewed one of their friends out in wichita and i recorded the interview and i asked if i could record i

it has had a fantastic team. valerie is right. we all have stories. represent,you thousands have a story. i have a story. when i had children, i had a very high-pressure job. there were a lot of time commitments to the job. i had a boss who saw that i was struggling a little bit and she rescheduled meetings around me and made sure that she changed couldhedule so that i have my responsibilities as a parent and worker. she changed the work culture to accommodate parents. as the secretary said, i felt like i won the boss lottery. we should all have work situations where people recognize that when we are good workers and parents, that is best for the bottom line. and that is so much of what they -- today is about. we are making the case for how improving working conditions for families is best for the bottom line. parents and we who hadrd from parents to put sick children on a bus and we have heard about parents struggling with the decisions of going to work. parents are talking about how and have waited until 5:00 ran home because they know that their ch

in the few minutes valerie speaks with us he has twenty one missed calls on his cell phone parents terrified of what the future holds but even more afraid to stay around and find out paula sphere r t lugansk eastern ukraine. the u.s. is hoping to increase its export of energy supplies by increasing the fracking of natural gas but some experts are warning that the fracking bill could be more of a bust are just more important aisle looks at how this could hurt america's energy expansion plans. the curse is in ukraine as open the door of opportunity for the u.s. to export its most contentious and environmentally questionable energy extracting technique during president obama's first bilateral meeting with his ukrainian elected counterpart the us leader motivated. to develop domestic resources of natural gas one option u.s. officials have repeatedly encouraged how they can pay for is hydro fracking exploration for sale gas we discussed issues of energy making sure that ukraine becomes. more energy efficient economy but also one that is less dependent solely on energy sources. from russia preside

. >> valerie bertinelli and jen lee sit down with us after this. >> go online or call right now. >>> it is a show that has had us laughing for the past four years. for the ladies of hot in cleveland the fun is getting started. >> the sit come is in its fifth season with the 2010 premier scoring the network's highest ratings ever. >> it's all thanks to the on-screen chemistry between valerie bertinelli, jane and wendy lee. >> it's hot in cleveland but it's cold in the studio if you know. >> you look terrific. >> now you're just drawing attention. >> don't worry. we haven't looked. >> show jane again. >> you're okay jane -- it's wendy though. >> so kids, what a success this has been. you guys obviously have great chemistry between each other but know it was going to last this long? >> we hoped. >> but you never know. the scrip was there. the chemistry was there. we all had the rush feeling when we read the script for the first time together but you just pray. >> it's like luck and timing too. i think people were ready to see women over 50. see how fabulous you still can be. everybody knows somebody great wh

valerie jarrett. you can watch it live starting at 9:00 a.m. on c-span 3. >> lawrence strickland has the national communications and administration communication. he talks about domain name is shifting from u.s. government control. >> in the clinton administration determined they wanted to move theoperation out of federal government and monetize it. in 1998, which is to complete that private occasion. tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. >> the u.s. house held a joint hearing on iran's humanitarian effort. they discussed the imprisonment. about thealso heard persecution of gay iranians. the hearing is held by the house foreign affairs committees on foreign immigrants in the middle east. this is one hour and 45 minutes. >> the joint subcommittee will come to order.

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valerie jarrett or a four star general who has gone through the war college at west point who has beenar general. who do you think might know a little bit more about that? this is air divant administration and one more example of it. >> what do you make of the president and members of the staff coming out and doubling down on their comments this week basically sticking by the decision to bring bowe bergdahl home, the wave in which they did it, the rose garden ceremony and susan rice coming out when she made the comment that he served with honor and distinction. this week she was asked about it and she doubled down on this. take a listen. >> i realize there has been a lot of discussion and controversy around this. but what i was referring to is the fact that this was a young man who volunteered to serve his country in uniform at a time of war. that is itself a very honorable thing. >> really? because nidal hasan actually fits the same description. >> yeah. >> who shot up fort hood. >> there is another issue to think about. there is -- in fact, the young man that you had on from the juni

outing of valerie and the attempt to get her husband ambassador joe wilson and the mixing of some of the staff. the comment about leaving soldiers on the battlefield i find risible because cheney has never been a soldier. he went out of his way not to be a soldier, five deferments as you pointed out and in my view shouldn't be speaking about things military because he has absolutely zero knowledge of things military. i say that even though i served with general powell when he was chairman and cheney was secretary of defense. the beauty of that administration was not dick cheney. the beauty was george h.w. bush and colin powell. >> colonel, what about dick cheney's thoughts on staying in iraq and afghanistan? and i also want to ask you about, do you think he is the attack dog for the conservatives in this country when it comes to foreign policy because he has nothing to lose? i cite it back to the spring of 2009 when president obama was enjoying some tremendous ratings, the country was moving forward trying to because the economy was bad. president was in high popularity and the republicans really didn't know how to handle this so they ended up doing a bunch of obstruction. it was

the entire white house team, salary, and the department of labor which has had a fantastic team. valerie is right, we all have stories. every one in this room and the people you represent, thousands upon thousands of people, have a story. i have my own story, which is younghen i had two children, i had a son who was a year and a half and a daughter 1/2, i had a i had ansure job, and employer who saw i was struggling a little bit. she rescheduled meetings around me, made sure she changed her schedule so i could have my responsibilities. both of the parents and as a worker. she changed the entire work culture to accommodate parents. said, i feltperez like i won the boss lottery. that is a real problem in this country. you should not have to win the boss lottery. we should all have work situations where people recognize that when we are good workers and good parents, that is for the bottom line. and that is why -- [applause] and that is so much of what today is about, in the white house has a fantastic report out today, making the case for how improving our working conditions for families i

has done so much harm to our nation that it frightens me. thank you for your call. this article from "politico," written by valerielame, it is in "politico" magazine, and in part of that she says she writes about the 2001 incident, the 2003 invasion and run up to iraq. host: shreveport, louisiana, good morning, independent line, go ahead. it is a kind of catch-22 situation. yulia -- you have got people out there, far as i am concerned, with the daddy bush new world order guest op note taking information on people that does not need to be taken. this is a violation of the fourth amendment. the americans are the terrorists. they are patriotic. you have got a group of people that has taken over this that has totally run amok as far as the constitution goes. probably 90% of the congress needs to be brought up on treason charges. all of the administration's back to reagan, further than that, possibly. you know, people need to know who the bad guys are. we have got a bunch of them in a shadow government running this country and it has been going on probably for decades and people need to know this. in your view, is edwa

has like 15 hosts. >> i know. >> and nobody was around. only al, the only guy in town. >> he needed some girls. >> he needed help. we have the lovely ladies from "hot in cleveland," valeriech by the way my friends that live in texas and teach school are like, i'm in the car, girl. i don't see you, i commute. now they can hear you. >> hey. >> you have no excuse. >> i had the thrill of a lifetime yesterday. i got to host an hour of -- or maybe two hours, i don't really know, of this -- one of the stations on sirius called "the highway". >> it's so fun. >> it's all country and i got to pick my songs and play them. it was like my favorite thing. >> i asked you a couple days ago it to do a little garth brooks. >> you asked me do garth brooks but i forget. so i'm sorry, okay. i can't remember everything. >> you sure can't. >> hauge day on monday. pippa middleton has never done an interview. >> ever. >> we've seen her but never heard her. not in london, not around the globe, not in the states, and one man got the interview. >> of course he did. >> one man. matt lauer sat down with pippa first interview ever. let's listen to a tiny, tiny, tiny sound bite of what kate middleton's