guest: this is the kind of policy debate that people in washington law. the heading is the internet kill switch. the big concern that people have when they first looked at some of the concerns. one of the legislative proposals was that somehow the president would go in the basement in the white house and flipped the big switch to off and the internet would stop working. realistically, that cannot happen. the internet is not designed in centralize the control. it was interesting when it happened in egypt last year, it was because there were four sx access points. what your question goes to is what types of authorities with the president have in a genuine cyber warfare scenario? in that sense, this mirrors some of the other debates taking place right now about, when does the president need to go to congress? what can he do on his own authority? the white house does need to think about those issues. we found ourselves in the cyber war scenario, the president would have to make some decisions, particularly if the internet was part of the battlefield. guest: i

a lot of people including george washington law professor who is far from a liberal says the supreme court will uphold the mandate a vote of 6-3. >> that would be horrible. he is a legend. >> i am taking that this is the end. >> i am done. >> thanks, andy. >>> coming up, johnny depp has been mauled to death by a bear. i'm sorry, i read that wrong. he bought a new house in malibu. how do i screw these up? what is new with tara reid? prepared to be under well med. >>> can studying smut help kick terrorist butt? according to the witherspoon institute. >> oh, look at you. >> i'm sure it is a great institute. she claims we should study porn to better understand them. when they are captured they often own a bunch of pornography. they jump to the obvious conclusion, quote, in seeking to understand terrorists, studying their ideas alone is not enough. we need to study and understand their minds. minds shaped by pornography. how was this story not our lead? let's discuss this in our lightning roooooouuund. lightning round. >> that means it is our lightning round. that's why we move quickly th

but one step they have already taken is hiring a top washington law firm that signed a contract justmonth. this is the transitional council now. and they are pretty high-powered law firm advising the transitional council among other things, where to find the wealth and how to get their hands on it. so i think we are going the see private investigators hired by the law firm and others trying to track down the money and sometimes these can be successful. >> michael, just to update everybody in tripoli, libya, where we are watching the black smoke continuing to billow into the sky. this is coming from the gadhafi compound in tripoli, basically a military barracks where he's resided for decades now, but rebels breached the western wall there. and we are hearing they were able to go in and fighters have put up some resistance, little to none now, roughly after an hour of the fighting that's been going on there. our reporter richard engel is not seeing or hearing much of the gunfire continuing. however, there has been celebratory gunfire going on in the streets. richard was also telling us

alabama law set to take effect september 1st was passed and signed by the governor in june and subject of protests and civil suits already. pete williams joins us live now from washingtona's law goes a bit further here than arizona's controversial immigration law which the federal government challenged last year. >> that is right. that law has been put on hold by the federal courts, and opponents of of the alabama law says it goes more than a bit further than the arizona law, but it gives the police in alabama more power to detain people suspected of being in country illegally and to ask them for the papers and detain them if they don't carry their papers and it also requires that any parents or children who seek to be enrolled in the public elementary schools in alabama must prove they are here legally. if they are not here legally, the children can at the end school, but what proponents of the law say that the mere fact that the state requires them to demonstrate that the child is here legally for record-keeping purposes would discourage many parents from enrolling the children, and by the way the u.s. stream couupreme court rulf a child is here illegally, they must

law. >>> here in washington, this week's debt limit compromise may have averted a government default, but many in the religious community are disappointed by its provisis. a broad interfaith coalition said the spending cuts will hurt the poor while protecting the rich. the coalition promised to continue its lobbying efforts as the special congressional committee debates more deficit reduction measures. meanwhile, a new group called christians for a sustainable economy said the president and congress have a moral obligation to take even stronger steps to erase the debt. they said the poor would be best helped by getting the economy back on track. >>> this week's budget deal did not raise taxes. buincreases will be on the table in the days ahead. what is a just tax system? how should the government raise revenue to provide the basic services our society needs? and how should the tax burden be shared? tim o'brien reports. >> reporter: there are some things the government must do, and the first reason for tax is to pay for them. beyond that there is wide debate over how taxes can be efficient

washington. >> pelley: good evening. president obama today signed the compromise law that keeps the government from defaulting on its debts, but the financial markets which had been so rattled by the possibility of default found something else to worry about today. there is new evidence that the economic recovery is in trouble. and that sent stock prices plunging. the dow closed down 265 points. the index which was closing in on 13,000 in the spring fell below 12,000 today. and the s&p 500 has now given up all of its gains for the year. we have reports tonight from norah o'donnell at the white house and anthony mason on wall street. first anthony. >> reporter: scott, the dow had its worst day in two months and ended its 8th straight closing session down. that's the longest losing streak we've seen since the depths of the financial crisis back in october of 2008. now, there was no celebration of the debt deal down here because there was more evidence the recovery is stalling out. consumer spending fell in june for the first time in nearly two years. that worried wall street because consumer spending drives 2/3 of the econo

founded the democratic party which is still around today and his contemporary george washington was the guy who first put into law legislation that would that would have paid for in fact it paid for. homes for the poor here in washington d.c. thomas paine pushed for social security and national health care alexander hamilton is now as jefferson normally enemies agreed on the importance of limiting the power of great wealth we didn't have a millionaire in the united states until the seven hundred ninety s. the really rich people left after enduring the revolutionary war we didn't have a billionaire in the united states until the eight hundred eighty s. in today's dollars and congress then limited them in eight hundred one with the sherman antitrust act teddy roosevelt one further with the inheritance tax and president taft after roosevelt busted up standard oil into twenty six companies so we don't really have to say the republicans built america the democrat in just the promise is flawed you're right people with great well they're hanging on to it as much as they can but. the the beginning to the next coming come

. >>> coming up, president obama signs into law the debt bill that washington has been brawling overr the last several weeks. now the president says it's time to get back to fixing the economy. talk about what he's got up his sleeve on "morning joe." >>> when we come back, we'll huddle up around the water cooler to watch one mayor in lithuania take an illegal parking problem into his own hands. yes. that's him driving a tank over illegally parked vehicles. "way too early" is coming right back. [ male announcer ] members of the american postal workers union handle more than 165 billion letters and packages a year. that's about 34 million pounds of mail every day. ever wonder what this costs you as a taxpayer? millions? tens of millions? hundreds of millions? not a single cent. the united states postal service doesn't run on your tax dollars. it's funded solely by stamps and postage. brought to you by the men and women of the american postal workers union. ♪ especially behind the wheel. nothing wrong with that. in fact, allstate gives them a bonus -- twice a year -- for being safe driv

washington. >>> assuming the deal eventually signed into law, it could mean more fiscal pain for already cash-strapped states. states are struggling with budget deficits. declining tax revenues. that's not going to get any easier as the president obama said that the new plan cuts domestic spending to its lowest level to more than half aentury. >>> turning to other news this mornrng -- the frantic search continues for a missing new hampshire girl who was last seen a week ago. divers searched a pond for clues of the disappearance of celina cass. her father pleaded for the girl's return, he was in hospital when she disappeared. >> i can't believe that she's walked off. i can't believevthat somebody has had to kidnapped her. it's the only thing that i can see that happened. she's not the type to o st walk off from somewhere. >> the fbi is now offering a $25,000 reward for information in the case. community member has added another $5,000. >>> investigators from the ntsb are trying to figure out what caused a horrific plane crash in guyana, the pictures show what those terrifying momenen must have been lik

in 1792, the fugitive slave act, which was a specific law, which essentially said the same thing, was originally signed by george washington. so there were very clear federal laws against people who escaped from slavery. however, many of the states in the north simply refused to enforce the law. they would not allow law enforcement personnel to arrest people. they would not arrest people who had escaped from slavery. there was a contention going on between the state's long before the civil war actually broke out. it is a stipulation that there were states in the north that were not abiding by the federal law. >> where did you get this information? >> i found some information online trade house able to get context from people in philadelphia. the philadelphia connection is important. and 1999 or so, the national parks service decided to move the liberty bell from its old location to its new multimillion-dollar per billion. this would be extremely fancy. it turns out, where they were going to build the pavilion was over this land where a house that drug washington had his slaves was at that location. it was specifically over

as a mayor, what do you need out of washington right now? what law would you like to see passed? or lifted to help create jobs in newark, new jersey? >> but first, i want to stick with the subject of education. what i don't want to happen in washington is for us to cannibalize what has made this country great. so when i hear things like cutting pell grants, then you're closing the door to education. there is a need for more engineers in our nation, there's a need for more scientists in our nation. so if we continue to lock a whole bunch of people in a world where college education is too far beyond our reach, we're going to lock in a permanent underclass in our country. i do not want to see us disinvesting in higher education. when you see great systems like california's public college system being cannibalized right now for the case of short-term budget crises, that means we as a nation are undermining our future growth. in addition to that, i want to see us being bold a little bit and making sure we're investing in those programs that we know actually work and help create jobs.

law. the doug holtz-eakin says that the sub subsidies alone for private health insurance exchanges are going to add $1 trillion more. but this is washington's games, you know? they play all these games. they were pretending that this law is going to reduce the deficit, and one of the members of congress said only in washington can you say you're going to spend another trillion dollars and save the taxpayers money. but it is, it makes me crazy. and we're talking about the entitlements that we have now, medicare and medicaid and social security in particular, that we can't, that are paralyzing these, these deficit reduction talks. and here we have this wave of health care entitlements that are coming, and they're not even on the table now. what are these discussions going to look hike in five, ten -- look like in five be, ten years when we have everybody or the great majority of americans reliant on the government for their -- that's why if there's no other reason, that's why this law has to be repealed. >> and thank you for kind words about our work because we, we're really dedicated and passionate about it, and we just can't lose this battl

law. when he was with the washington wizards in 2009 he was suspended from the league for having guns in agilbert arenas. arenas spent a short time in a halfway house. jarvaris crittenton served one year probation. he will be taken to atlanta to face murder charges there. gregg: i want to go become to another story we have been following. let's get a look at what you've been thinking about. pilots relying more and more on automation. 36% of you say hey, love it, technology is better than ever. 64% say, you know what, kind of a cause for concern. you worry about pilots keeping their flying skills sharp in case technology fails. sometimes they have to make split second decisions when some of the automation fails. jenna: you can only trust computers so far. you have to trust your instincts as well. right now that is what pilots are dealing with. nothing is on the horizon to change that. gregg: maybe a little more training, that's what our guest said. jenna: a controversial immigration law in alabama is put on hold by the courts. why a judge says she is temporarily blocking the state from impl

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washington, d.c. the center for state and local government law. the chief justice earl warren institute. the consulate general of mexico. the quality federation. -- equality federation. the national center for lesbian rights. san francisco chamber of commerce. the san francisco department of children, youth, and their families. san francisco department on the status of women. san francisco zero divided foundation. we would like to thank the city department heads that are here. the department of status of women. the human rights commission, and our own director, the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs. you have an opportunity later in the meeting for public comment. please indicate if you would like to speak or write down your questions and return the cards to staff members. i would like to introduce an outstanding leader who has worked hard to bring the diverse segments of the san francisco community together to reach a common ground. since coming into office in january of 2009, he has brought thoughtful leadership to our city. we're pleased to welcome the president of the s

the agricultural hubs this is the wrong way to cure the deafening silence in washington i'm about ready to teach immigration law in a law school where my father taught for thirty two years and on the second generation immigration lawyer we all know that the powers vested in congress and just because they can't get their act together for politics doesn't mean the president should be excused on the eve of an election to put a band-aid on this issue certainly not when he goes to you know he goes to challenge governors and courts saying that they have no right to protect their financial treasuries and interests because it's a federal issue and then when given the authority does nothing again let's put the camera on the on the subject here we're talking about three hundred thousand people in the system the leniency that they're promising is nothing more than cosmetic and it's not going to address the porous borders we have the fact that we have a departure system that is broken and nonexistent and the fact that students clerics diplomats and others have guys themselves historically and have insidious terrorist cells

she works in washington, d.c.. she has her own law firm there. she goes home and she calls it oklahoma to the reservation. but she says sometimes people come up to her and they say, you don't look like a real indian. and her mother's nonnative. and she said, well, you don't look rude, but you are. [laughter] >> so there's lots and lots of comebacks. there was wonderful surprises in the 10 years to write this book that -- that i laughed so much. >> wait a minute, pause there. 10 years to write the book. >> yeah >> when you read the book, chapter to chapter, it has a freshness and a very contemporary feeling. it doesn't seem like the product of 10 years, but what were those 10 years like for you? >> well, i'm really slow. [laughter] >> that's part of the reason. and also i'm a freelance editor so i was also doing some work on the side to help fund this. i'm a terrible fundraiser. i refer to myself as de facto nonprofit. [laughter] >> and -- but i also started from zero. i mean, i really knew very, very little. when i began this book i knew all the

law in its current form is broken. it is way too punitive, lots of ways to fail, and no rewards for success. it is very punitive, very top down from washington and it has led to a dumbing down of standards. the law of the land has some money has so many disincentives and that does not make sense to me. do is doe going to creative and invented things around principal and evaluation support. we want to give them a lot more flexibility. we're focused on doing the right thing, showing courage, raising standards. we want to get out of the way and let the move. we will hold the of -- we will hold them accountable for results, but great changes have always come at the local level, not from me or anyone in washington. >> can you talk about some things you see that define what you're talking about? >> i was in tennessee last week. tennessee, like many states, dumb things down under no child left behind. it was very tight, very prescriptive. tennessee had the courage to raise standards. before they did, they told their students that they were reporting that 91% of their students were proficient in math. when they raised standards, that went to 34%. wh

laws and you have to abide by them. that is one of the things we need to pay attention to when we get back to washington, d.c. part of being a republic -- the preeminent thing is the respect of the rule of law. if we do not have that coming out of washington, d.c., we lose our edge. -- we lose our country. >> congressman, this is a question from austin white head. is there any plan to eliminate the increase in lobbyists? >> i cannot make them go away. but i can stop them coming near me. you have 535 legislators. at last count, there were 35 to 40 largest -- lobbyists for each legislator. there is a street called k street which is the lobbyist street. this is what you have to do. you just have to close your door to them. there was a contentious thing about the second engine for the of 35 fighter aircraft. -- f 35 fighter. ge wanted to be able to come in and have that second engine. one of the top executives from ge decided to visit a young freshman congressman in his office. did not make a dent. that is what you have to be able to do. [applause] people will promise you a whole lot of things up in washington, d.

washington, d.c. i attended in my staff capacity of the asian law caucus. i did see a sergeant there representing the san francisco police department, and what i took away from the experience is that we're all doing great things throughout the country. there are things in tennessee and also in minnesota where they have outreach to immigrant communities. i would like to bring that back to talk about, because it is almost like our ambassador program but coming out of the police department and strong connection with immigrant- serving organizations to try to deal with the barriers of have a trust and also the language issues, and looking at the language access report that we were provided with, i noticed that there were some areas where the police department is very strong, but there are other areas where we did not receive a check, where we have some work to do, so in the coming weeks and months, i will bring up some proposals. president mazzucco: ok, any further commission reports before we move into the items for consideration? item 3d. clerk: item 3d. pres

washington, theodore roosevelt, really doesn't understand this. a lot of noise was made last fall about the types of plans that i offer my employees. under the health reform lawgton has decried that these so-called limited benefit plans are not acceptable. despite repeated promises that if you like your plan, you can keep it, the law has -- the law has outlawed these plans beginning in 2014. i understand that for many and a more comprehensive plan seems a critical and by comparison these limited benefit plans are slim, however, it's important to acknowledge reality. these plans are less expensive and allow my team members to choose to take more of their wages home and use a smaller amount of their wages to pay for some coverage. prior to health reform i had the flexibility to hire more workers, pay them a wage and offer them access to this moderate coverage. now i'm being told by washington that i have to offer all my full-time employees washington-defined health coverage or pay a penalty. because of the cost of offering this prescribed coverage and the size of the penalty i'll have no choice but to restructure my work force in a way that protects me from los

a standard & poor's statement you see, the big fight in washington over the debt ceiling shows the law making process is less stable, predictable than previously believed. the u.s. is viewed less credit worthy than canada, france and the uk among other country. the same status as belgium and new zealand. one step above bermuda, kuwait and the beleaguered country of spain. good morning to you at the white house. i say the word good, parenthetically. not only, john, did the s&p down grade the dow, what does this mean for the country? >> negative outmeans they're praising for a further downgrade if we don't get our act together to a greater degree over the next couple of year. they give outlooks to give an advance sort of flashing yellow light, and then they say how a country or a company responds to that. that's what they're doing with this negative outlook and saying if we don't get a more thorough growing deficit reduction plan over the next few years we could go from aa plus to aa. >> let's talk the history since 1917. the economy that survived. aaa rating through every war since worl

washington. we looked at sunset laws, line- item vetoes, balanced budget amendment, and we took what we learned from our competitors and what we learned from our state's and put them in a bill to control spending in washington. we just introduced it and it is maximizing american profits. it puts guardrails and discipline around the federal government were you shrink the size of government and create guard rails in such a grave that neither party can jump or burrow under, which is what they do today. it shrinks the size of federal government now. it of such programs and agencies because literally, as a government, as a nation, we do not know all the programs and agencies that exist today, unless the ones that duplicate time and time again. the latest report from the gao was 84 programs

law. the senate also gives the go ahead. in washington. not a lot of good news in terms of the big picture for the u.s. economy of course the only thing that we can be certain of that this deal means is that it averts the self imposed potential crisis of a u.s. default what we do know in this legislation is a does sort of cut spending by about two point four trillion dollars over the next decade what that means in the short term for the u.s. economy is potentially a lot of bling of growth now we have to keep in mind that the unemployment rates are still astronomically high at nine point two percent and so a lot of economists are saying this is not really the time to be cutting the spending this whole battle over the debt limit is kind of a proxy war an ideological proxy war between the republicans in congress and the democrats in congress and we have to keep in mind that the two thousand and twelve election is coming up for both the congress and of course president obama and a lot of political analysts are saying this is just another way f

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law of the land. >> everyone in washington got bruised over this fight, and the president did, too. >> both the president and john boehner are in the loser categories here. folks out there are saying to hell with all these guys. >> let's review. the president sets up a financial commission, then ignores it. president puts forth his budget and no one, not even members of his own party votes for it. would you have confidence in a guy like that? >> after brilliantly making the republicans look ridiculous at every stage of the negotiations, after slowly but surely educating the public about the importance of raising the dealt ceiling and after turning voter sentiment against the republicans, in the end the president blinked. >> so how are news organizations faring in chasing this fast-moving story and unraveling the compromise that kept the country out of default. joining us, dennis prayinger, the indicated radio host, joan walsh from salon.com and in washington terence smith, former media correspondent for the pbs news hour. joan walsh, the commentary on the left has been that obama got rolled, capitulated.

country's boring limit has been signed into law by president obama after an eleventh hour deal passed its final hurdle in the senate. has the latest in washington. president did come out and speak earlier he called this crisis a so-called manufactured crisis saying that it shouldn't have taken the risk of a default like a task or a few for a washington to get its after work together interesting words but of course we can't neglect the fact that both the president as well as the both both of the political parties are all equally to blame for the big picture economic crisis that has brought the united states to this next one which now what this deal does is essentially raises the borrowing limit of the united states wolf cutting spending by about two point four trillion dollars there's a lot of sort of strings attached in order to raise that debt deal that limit and the reason that we saw this battle over this fairly routine vote the raising the debt limit keep in mind is something this country has done more than one hundred times since one thousand nine hundred eighty s. what we saw what was different this time is that this became a proxy ideolo

washington state beginning in october. not coincidentally, that is when the evenly reform law will limit the amount banks can charge retailers when you pay with a debit card. there has been a sharp increase in the number of american children living in poverty over the last decade. according to a report out tonight, it's grown from 17% to 20%. in all, 14.7 million children. those are the hard numbers. we asked bill whitaker for the story and the faces behind them. >> reporter: 12-year-old crystal montes comes to this compton school five days a week for a free lunch. >> enjoy your meal. >> thank you. >> reporter: served by the nonprofit los angeles regional food bank to children in this neighborhood where 90% come from families with incomes below the poverty line. 23,350 dollars a year for a family of four. >> my uncle is busy and my mom is at work we come to lunch so that way we won't be hungry a lot. >> reporter: these children are the faces of the growing trend. based on markers such as infant mortality and teen births, the study found child poverty rose in 38 states between 2000 and 2009 where poverty hits children hardest

the only reason megrahi was tried unscottish law was a three-way agreement between washington, londonhe scottish s -- authorities to try him that way. it was put out by the u.s. government in the clinton administration, megrahi would remain in a scottish jail. >> greta: how do the -- how could the brits do this to us? they were our best friends. >> it is a disgrace. inexcusable. it had to do with british petroleum and their -- >> greta: how much money do you need? how much oil do you need? >> the new conservative government in the united king come, there is no excuse for it, it is a disgrace. it is a disgrace for scotland to have done that. i say that as somebody who is predominantly scottish by heritage, it is embarrassing. >> greta: did they say it was about oil? >> the british have wanted to get into libya for a long time. >> greta: this is beyond me. there's some honor even like we are their best friends, these were our americans, our kids, our college students there were foreign nationals. >> british citizens died, 11 on the ground in scotland. idea that there's justification to

we didn't come to washington. work for law enforcement in order to degrade liberty and security. we actually came because we believe that america is the shining city on the hill and we want to preserve those liberties. those folks, they talk to them, go out of their way to make sure that they always have involved and more so than ever before today, folks who are kind of their check. they have groups that argue no task force groups or oversight goods that they occasionally will ring in an reference and explain what they are doing to get feedback from them whether it is l.a.p.d. has such a unit, whether washington, the entire office and dhs focused on this issue so i think you know, the sincere effort and believe that most people trying to really keep us safe are trying to do so in a manner that really does respect our civil rights and civil liberties. sometimes things go awry. that is human nature and it happens but i don't believe for a moment that many people have an intent to really degrade those. they really are there to secure them. so one of the things that we need to keep i

washington d.c. in black robes and uttering the final word on every single law that we've come to believe you know that kings are best and we don't believe in democracy. course our next commentator may not agree with me derek on twitter said this about my objections to today's supreme court he said while tom tom hartman is very scary he's advocating mob rule instead of the rule of law in his position against the supreme court. well you know model is what james madison john adams used to refer to as the mockers what i really advocating is thomas jefferson's vision of our democracy after the supreme court's decision in marbury vs madison jefferson who was then president went ballistic and eighteen zero four he wrote the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not not only for themselves in their sphere of action but for the legislative and executive also in their spears would make the judiciary a despotic branch jefferson also seven eighteen nineteen if the judiciary is the last resort in relation to the other departments of the government then indeed i