walton has been acting as the cio for one year now? two years now which has been a problem and i would have find if we made the acting cio, the cio and that's the mayor's opinion and i think the answer to this is requires further anal scpises require whether the two positions are needed after the new cio is hired and similarly for recommendation number ten which is to amend the administrative code to create separate position of the director of dt pointed to -- appointed by and to the city's cio and same analysis after the new cio is hired. that is in the first phase and now let's go to the second and my apologies for speaking quickly. although address although these bodies address technology on a city wide basis technology is not treated as a distinct organizational entity and i agree. i think it should be treated as a city wide and departmental function and hr function, or the controller's function. some functions need to be centralized and others will always within within their departments. and by the way i just want to deas for memb

are there groups out there consumer groups that can effectively organize and go to the waltons family that owns walmart and say change the way you run your store. >> yeah, i think you're already slowly starting to see that happen. there are plenty of groups that have been and have been long been targeting walmart for their labor practices or for undercutting local competition or whatever the issue may be. again, as more public pressure is brought to bear on the fact and particularly consider the fact that walmart is trying to expand into urban areas that's the next phase of the walmart story is putting stores in cities. so as walmart is beginning to approach these urban municipalities saying hey we want to build a store i think you can expect that the gun issue is going to be a big talking point between the politicians and the store. >> eliot: the consumer pressure points are there and are real. sometimes consumers are hard to organize. on the other hand, the other avenue for organizing is investors. investors not so important with walmart because walmart is still owned and controlled

craig walton owns city beer store. >> none of the retailers or distributors or even the import remember getting any money off this either. >> reporter: hundreds of folks waited in line and some skipped work. >> please don't fire me when i get back to work. >> reporter: with limited amounts, only those with tickets was getting beer. one person hopes the cute factor works. >> i'm hoping i have the sympathy card that the kid will get the ticket. >> reporter: by 2:00 this afternoon, the beer was running short. through the magic of television, you only thought that i was drinking on the job. by the time you see this report, it will be gone. in san francisco, don ford, cbs 5. >>> when a texas man was pulled over the last thing he expected was a gift from the officer. 25-year-old hayden carlo was shocked to find cash along with a ticket for an expired registration sticker. >> opened it up and there's a hundred dollars bill. i broke down in my car. >> the officer didn't want to be identified and his police department didn't find out until carlo's grandfather called to thank the officer. the off

. >> host: next call from maurice in walton, ky. >> caller: hello. >> host: please go ahead. >> caller: i would like to ask mr. rothkopf to cite some examples of large corporations that government has a withdrawn regulations, governing those industries. when the obama administration is adding hundreds of regulations every month particularly with health care industry, the environmental situation, i don't see any coming off of anybody whether it is health care interests or industry in general. >> guest: there are a lot of regulations. lot of bad regulations and i am not suggesting all forms of regulation are good but i do think it is very clear that for example some industries like big oil and gas companies have had benefits in terms of tax breaks, there has been an effort to push back up climate's regulation, whether it is a carbon tax or a movement toward global agreements on climate, there have been efforts to pursue certain kinds of regulatory approaches more beneficial and others such as promoting free trade agreements without intensively promoting the enforcement of trade and so fo

suggested that the inheritance tax should go up i mean you've got you've got the six heirs of sam walton who own more wealth than the bottom thirty percent of america and they were the ones that turned out we learned this what two years ago i think that we had funded the effort to come up with the phrase death tax and. might that be i mean this was what teddy roosevelt proposed this was his solution actually it was thomas paine's original solution wrote about an agrarian justice well i think as a practical matter it's a first while politically they're never going to do much with the estate tax because there are too many democrats who essentially support the republican position which really is you should have no taxes on anything on anybody for any reason now it's true there are a group of millionaires and there's a few of these groups but i think you know they may be rich. they're not putting resources into this effort i mean you know mr gates sr will you know do various things but my friends the koch brothers and people of that sort of sheldon adelson they're writing checks for tens of

shabby sixteen point four billion dollars in profits that same year in the six wal-mart heirs the walton family owned roughly one hundred billion dollars in wealth which is more than the bottom forty percent of americans combined but despite making all this money wal-mart's business model inches. chain from the government it hinges on being the biggest welfare queen in the united states because of the everyday low wages that the retail giant pays its employees our government has to step in and provide public assistance to wal-mart employees just so they can survive which is why the wal-mart workforce represents the largest recipient of federal aid in the nation. a wal-mart worker makes an average thirty one percent less than the worker of any other large retailer and requires thirty nine percent more in public assistance recent study by u.c. berkeley found that wal-mart's low wages are costing the state of california alone eighty six million dollars a year to provide public assistance for basic stuff like food stamps and health care for that retailers forty four thousand low wage employe

have a you have a corporation like wal-mart in which the people who own wal-mart own six people the walton family own more wealth than forty percent of the nation combined and you have greeters making seven bucks an hour seven twenty five an hour here would it be so bad if these people were unionized to make a living wage make fifteen dollars an hour especially a profitable what money does have you got a straw fick well it depends where i mean you've got to make you've got to pay workers so that they can survive so they begin to pay the bills with their own fried health care for their family to be productive members of the economy why are all the people why do these five people have a much wealth why are these. it's policies were changed in the eighty's it's also very first one of the latter now it's because the prices are low the price of oil you have every greeter make a fifteen dollars the prices are going to be that low americans want low prices so if you can have any more money nobody's owed a job all these people we're talking about they can just fire i mean what we're really saying

the american writer i like very much from that period or a little later is edith walton. great favorite of mine. i like her because she is the real storyteller but always kind of fiercely intelligent. her analysis of her characters always amaze you but that isn't all. she doesn't just do that, she tells you a real story. she is a great favorite of mine. >> before i turn this back over -- i want to ask a personal favor of you and ask you to sign this book. [applause] >> by the way -- you will have a chance to do the same. >> while they are signing i want to introduce myself, dale gregory, vice president of public programs and how thrilling it is to have you all here in these two charming gentlemen, i am sure you will agree and i want to remind you the book is on sale in the museum store, book signing will be out the back doors, i am so happy that you came, that that you said yes, we want to thank you, charles osgood, and ken follett, for agreeing -- it must have been immediately too. it was wonderful. [applause] >> for more information visit the author's web site, ken foll

john walton weighs in. >> looking forward to talking to him.tion recording the internet blackout, stay with us, folks, we'll be right back. rop? campbell's has 24 new soups that will make it drop over, and over again. ♪ from jammin' jerk chicken, to creamy gouda bisque. see what's new from campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. gives you a low $18.50 monthly plan premium... and select generic hypertension drugs available for only a penny... so you can focus on what really matters. call humana at 1-800-808-4003. ♪ >> welcome back. got a developing story to talk to you about out of syria right now he where the country's internet service is reportedly back on following a two day nationwide blackout as syrian rebels make a strategic push for, control of an area leading to damascus international airport. and connor powell joins us live with more details on this. what can you tell us? >> well, kelly, for nearly three days, more than 90% of the internet across all the area was out. and latest report is that the internet is back on in damascus and

chairman walton, ranking member eshoo, members of the subcommittee, thank you for holding this important hearing, i look forward to listening to your views, answering your questions and continuing to work with you in the weeks, months and years ahead. to implement this landmark legislation. >> thank you for your testimony, thanks to all of you for coming today to testify before our subcommittee. i like to put the record three letters, one from the expanding opportunities for broadcasters coalition announcing a coalition of 25 broadcasters at this early stage who are interested in selling this specter met major markets. a letter from the telecommunications industry associations for efforts to maximize license spectrum for mobile broadband and a letter from a high tech spectrum coalition supporting swift implementation of the spectrum of. without objection they will be in the record. commissioners, obviously we have a lot to cover today so thirsty yes or no question, i want to start with ajit varadaraj pai. do you think the commission should insure that the commission produces the $7 billi

>>> all of us want to say good-bye to our long-time president of cnn, jim walton. jim started at the lowest levels of cnn in 1981, a year after the network was created. he worked his way all the way to the top levels of management. he says it's been a hell of a ride. it certainly has been. today is his last day. we wish him only, only the best. that's it for us. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. >>> "outfront" next. as we quickly approach the fiscal cliff, president obama issues a new proposal to congress. plus, one week after the deadly school shooting in newtown, connecticut, communities across the nation and around the world pay tribute to the victims. and the national rifle association speaks out for the first time since the attack. it proposes a controversial plan to prevent similar mass shootings. let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm soledad eye brine in for erin burnett. "outfront," lowering expectations ten days before we fall off the fiscal cliff, and there is still no deal in sight. tonight, president obama urged congress to broker a scaled-down

somebody mentioned sam walton. this is a guy who started his business in basically in his garage and now it's one of the major employers in the world. we need more of the entrepreneurs like that. we shouldn't tear them down. we should all want to be like them and anybody and i always say the greatest calling in life for any young person watching this show, start your own business. i've done it. it's hard. sometimes i've started businesses that have failed, i've started businesses that have been a success. but if you want to contribute to the economy, be an entrepreneur and create products and businesses and one of the things we shouldn't do is villify the people who as i say who sign the front end of the paychecks not the back end of the paychecks. host: steven moore, the writer for the "wall street journal" and autsdz of who is the fairest of them all? thank you very much for being on the "washington journal." >> merry christmas. host: we turn our attention now to the newtown tragedy and talk to author dave cullen

it is the walton family that is the richest family in the united states. planned dividend pay out for january 2nd . uncertainty about the fiscal cliff. they are moving up it is yet another example of how we get around this. i would point out when companies are not paying out the dividends, it means we get waste we don't like. instead they spend on offices and private jets and otherwise they might have distributed those funds much >> yes. john tamny, have a great new years. >> and coming up on the show . how late is too late to get your kids eating right? >> and other questions from parents looking for a healthiier new year for their kids. ready to buy a home? we'll show you where to get the most of your money. top towns to buy in now. ♪ [ male announcer ] in blind taste tests, even ragu users chose prego. prego?! but i've bought ragu for years. [ thinking ] wonder what other questionable choices i've made? i choose date number 2! whooo! [ sigh of relief ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego. time for citi price rewind. because your daughter reall

the walton family, who owns walmart, now has more net wealth as a single family than the bottom 40% ofthe change from '73 to 2012 in america and we have to turn that around and the wap to do that is to have the labor movement say -- forget taft hartley. forget the narrow box of labor law. we'll go out and re-introduce ourselves to the 90% of american workers that don't have a union and we'll do it on issues like childcare on issues like immigration and issues like affordable housing and the mortgage crisis in this country and we'll start to bargain as the labor movement on behalf of wla boring people. i'm not talking about sitting down at a table. i was a official negotiator for unions for lots of years and we found creative ways to bargain for things so you begin to go out and relate to the broader community as labor. >> but bargaining is something you do when you have leverage from someone. bargaining is not what you do when you have no leverage. so the question is how do you get to leverage so you can bargain? >> here's how you get to leverage so you can bargain. in stanford, connec

or just above and you're working in wal-mart, how much power do you think you've got against the walton family that's, what, are they the second or third rich nest the world now? or their corporate executives? you think you've got some bargaining power? you don't have anything. but if you're unionized and you have all of the union members with you, now you can bargain. now you get on a more even keel with wages and capital, to make sure that wages and capital don't get too far out of kilter. and that's simply what's happened. too much of our g.d.p. in the last 30 years has gone to capital and not enough to labor, and when that happens, middle-class america suffers. and when middle-class america suffers, we all suffer, because we know -- we know from history, we know from our american experiment that the american economy grows best from the middle out and not from the top down. so, again, mr. president, i -- i feel sorry for those workers who were caught off guard in michigan. i feel sorry for the middle class in michigan, those whose rights are being taken away to be able to bargain col