jack welch management institute.k about. so little time. what i want to talk to you about honestly is the dynamic between the fed and unemployment and where we really have in the economy. do you want to talk about snowden initially? is that something? >> no, i'll go anywhere you want. on snowden, that he broke the law, should be prosecuted. they should send him back here and prosecute him to the full extent of the law. >> the i give you my conspiracy theory, you said the president gets an a on this nsa stuff. i think they know that. i think this got us off the irs thing. i know, now we are talking about this i think he is right, no, we're not talking about lois lerner anymore. that's a real scandal. looking at metadata to catch terrorists. are you really going to be mad at the president for doing that, no? >> thoughts by the board. that's off in the front. >> it will come back. >> it will be back. >> this took, she's like, god, i love this snowden guy, isn't she? she's somewhere drinking a martini. >> here's the qui

. >>> this beautiful girl that you are seeing on your screen is 18-year-old may si welch. in the video that you are now seeing maizey is being surprised right before her 18th birthday with a brand new car. >> are you being serious right now? >> we got you one. >> to get into the car and describe exactly how excited she is. >> i was just talking to guy about me not having a car, and now i just got a car. i'm really excited. >> now, three weeks later this is her brand new car. >> what happened? >> according to reports, she was driving down a road, speeding and admittedly speeding and lost control of the car and ended up wrecking the car. she was the only one in the accident, and in the process, she severed her spinal cord. >> oh, no. >> she is now paralyzed from the breastbone down. >> oh, boy. >> this all happened just about four short months ago. again, this is right before her 18th birthday, and she is a senior in high school, but through solid determination, and through the love of her family, macy still graduated from high school with honors. >> looking cute and is wear

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. >> before the next speaker i am going to call (inaudible) jennifer welch. robin (inaudible), (inaudible) and (inaudible). >> thanks. >> good morning, supervisors department heads thank you for coming here this morning, my name is charles head and i am the president of the association of responsible people and i would like to echo the concern previously made by the mission association, about a temporary loss of parking as it may be two or four times, but what i am concerned about is a larger more permanent, what we, think of as a war on (inaudible) that seems to be going on. and this is several forms and what is the reduction of parking places due to the increased number of supply claims and other traffic calming measures. and it takes, you know, place with increased meetings. and... and it takes place with the collection of the parking on sundays and holidays that were normally not enforced. and i think for my point of view, i live close enough to a golden gate park to walk there and use muni all of the time. but what is going on is that areas of the neighb

jason cunningham who was our resource and ben rosen field and, of course, my own staff and carolyn welch and the rest of her staff. i'm going to go over this and stop at any point morgan anybody wants to speak picking up the $7 million we put into public housing. that's a critical piece because we've been able to since 2004 made inroads and crime is down. of those officers the only residential beat officers anywhere in san francisco provided activity back and forth and this overtime allows me to move those officers around even though their 32 of them that gives me color to 50. our revenue budget is going over our work orders sometime the supervisors have questions and the airport is 49 million and mta was over fourteen and the rest is pretty much self-explanatory. we actually go from 2213 and it goes down we're down 3 hundred officers and despite that we're holding the line wrrpdz to violent crime. this where we're at a record low. even below the 2009 record it was a thirty year low but we were full staffed in 2009. but again, this is like thing like the housing deployment and we're shif

you can follow him on twitter at peter welch. how about that. and john nichols washington correspondent for the "nation" magazine. out with a great new book, dollarocracy. john nichols in studio, follow him on twitter at nichols uprising. real revolutionary. nichols uprising. congressman, what are we doing in syria? are we doing the right thing and are we going to be able to hold the line in supplying just small weapons only? >> it is tough to see us holding the line there. here's the thing. number one, there is the humanitarian catastrophe there. there is enormous desire. i was at a syrian refugee camp on the turkish border, there's no men there. young men are off fighting. the husbands are fighting. the women don't know if they're safe or dead. you see children who have been burned from assad bombs. so there is this impulse we all have. john mccain and lindsey graham, give them some credit, they care about these folks but that, we have -- a humanitarian concern doesn't mean we have a practical means of affecting an outcome that makes it better

in the beginning we opposed the program and frankly you've heard from calvin welch there's no question the money is more useful today. we agreed to the program in context of a stalled development marketed but there were a couple of things

in the beginning we opposed the program and frankly you've heard from calvin welch there's no question the money is more useful today. we agreed to the program in context of a stalled development marketed but there were a couple of things do business it was a way to jump start business but it definitely needs to be over so it is judiciously used if ever again. thank you >> next speaker >> how do you do commissioners and chairman fong. i'm deborah i'm a member of senior and disability action. i'm also a resident of district 6 right in the heart of the building boom and i have definitely seen and been effected by it as well. i'm here to support the idea of ending the deferral program and getting the money undergoing directly. it's pretty obvious you know when the time this of the of was made the developers were taking advantage and their streptout their money as much as possible. so if anything can help speed up their payments that would be good. i can tell you from being disabled there are a variety of uneven sidewalks like in front of the construction areas. i've fallen a lot of times

>> welch you will have language training to go to iraq but not enough to feel comfortable having a discussion like we are having in the language of the country she was operating and then a year over to of language training then sent to china extraordinary profit professional development model. i would just point* out kids coming to the palo alto school district speaking 132 languages already we could hire people who have the language skills and we do not have to teach them. it is a business model that you would never start with at the culture of the state department replicates of the select people that have the skills of the people already there. the foreign service as an admissions wray to the equivalent of stanford university. , height of likelihood to get admitted to stanford as the u.s. foreign service we ought to be able to pick anyone we want to. but the institution does not make them better over time. that is something we should fix. >> host: former secretary rice is said the state has pentagon envy. >> guest: what she meant is there is a defensiveness to the culture of the u.s. state

listen to jack welch, the former ceo oge said this week. >> things are not bad. this is not a -- it's a 2% economy, and not going to create enough jobs with this level of economy to get out of the sevens. >> so, 2% economy. do you think the market is ahead of itself, knowing that we're in a 2% growth? >> i don't think so. the phrase we've been using is tina. there is no alternative. i also agree with rebecca you're not in a situation where you're going to be getting very high yield rate from bonds. the backup is a good reminder you can lose money, particularly in bond funds. so, it's a very strong environment, i think, very strong reminder that equities are very important part of the total return that investors are seeking. >> one of the good things he ó it not coming down quickeñ consumers doing well, businesses cautious, and we're in a global economy and a lot of u.s. companies today depend on sales joest assess. the u.s. is doing better but overseas, europe is still struggling with the recession, china's economy is growing, markets are face something pains ri

. >> democratic congressman peter welch serves on the oversight committee and is chief deputy whip ofarty's caucus. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> there's been some criticism of a letter that you sent to the irs last year encouraging the irs to investigate whether some of those 501 c 4s were in violation and in that letter you mentioned citizens united and you mentioned crossroads gps. why in your press release did you also mention liberal groups looking to benefit from the citizens united ruling? >> it probably should have because it applies equally. in my letter i was explicit to the irs which meant any group whatsoever. karl rove's group was the one raising millions of dollars and whether it was a carville group, james carville who was a political operative for karl rove. neither of those men is a social welfare organization, so it was a point i was make, but it would have been better to improve mr. carville's organization, as well. >> yeah, but if your concern is campaign finance reform and the worry that some of these groups on the left and the right might be taken advan

welch: i thank the gentlelady. this amendment is not on the level. it uses words that are important to all of us -- work. of course people want to work. but there is no money for a work program. there is an obligation on the person who has no income, who has children to somehow magically create their own work program. any other work programs has to have some support to get people to move from poverty to work. this is a political statement. it's not a work program. how poor is poor? this is telling folks they're not poor enough. grind them down and their children, 1-year-old children will lose food as a result of this. i yield back. the chair: the question occurs on the amendment offered by the gentleman from florida. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. >> i ask for a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from florida will be postponed. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, proceedings will now resume on those amendments

welch. mr. welch votes no. mr. cardenas. mr. horse ford. mr. horse ford votes no. ms. grish amount votes no. -- grisham votes no. >> how is mr. mchenry recorded? >> as voting aye. >> and mr. woodall, how is he recorded? >> mr. woodall has not been recorded. >> is there anyone else that seeks recognition to vote? > you are recorded voting aye. >> the clerk will report. >> on that vote, 22 ayes, 17 oes. > the resolution is agreed to. the resolution finding lois lerner waived her fifth amendment privileges on may 22, 2013, is approved. and we stand adjourned. >> tonight on c-span represent zoe lofgren and mario diaz-balart talk about immigration policy in the house. then kentucky senator rand paul campaigns in south carolina. followed by former florida governor jeb bush and the undraiser in new york. tomorrow, on washington journal, we'll host a roundtable discussion on president obama's plan for addressing climate change. with guests joshua zive, a lawyer and lobbyist with the electric reliability coordinating council. and bob deans, the federal communications director w

we get more now from chris welch. >> all right! >> reporter: a late-night breakthrough as crews on scene uncover a 61-year-old woman more than 12 hours after the collapse. >> they were digging and they felt her and she was able to respond. >> reporter: but others caught in the rubble weren't as lucky. >> our thoughts and prayers go out to those who lost their lives and their families. and at the same time, we pray that those who survive will recover, not only physically, but certainly mentally from the trauma of being in a building and it suddenly collapses. >> reporter: harold corbin, a maintenance worker was there to help. >> we were on top of the roof pulling them out. they were on an angle. there was just a narrow space to climb in to help. when we got there, all you could hear was help and maybe see a hand or something through the rubble. that's when the guys kicked in. they ran straight up, jumped in and started moving stuff. >> reporter: at this point investigators kaen not confirm there is no one left inside, thus they're s

reporting in sanford, florida, i'm chris welch. >> reporter: dramatic pictures out of alberta, canada, where flood waters have covered entire towns and are threatening others. take a look at this video. this home along three point creek. outside calgary, got swept away by the water. heavy rains caused the creek to spill over, swallowing up homes, trees and vehicles in its path. tonight, much of calgary is still submerged. the flooding is being blamed for the deaths of three people. >> jacqueline: we see your your kron 4 7 day around the bayand you can watch the is convenient for you on our 24/7 bay area news channel. kron4.com. www.kron4.com >> another blow for celebrity chef paula deen after it came to light last week that she used the n- word. deen as its spokesperson. smithfield is the country's largest port producer. putting an end to her three shows. last week.the food network said it was not renewing her contract - ending her three shows on the food network. that came just after a video apology.which seemed to only network q-v-c says it is relationship with the 66-year old. reve

. >>> calvin welch, council community housing organization, representative for san franciscans for housing, health care and justice. the community coalition. first of all, i want to congratulate us all. san francisco all too lobv is attacked for being process or yetctionved with no results. ~ oriented with no results. i think supervisors, community planning, sensitive approach to major very many projects the last 40 commissioner william leerx, this is probably the best examples of all three. ~ 40 years this was all fought for, meaningful concessions, not only city-wide, a community coalition made up, community groups from several neighborhoods that fought not only for their individual interests, their individual neighborhoods, but for city-wide. and an institution sutter health that saw its best interests in meeting the broadest interests of as many san franciscans as possible. we've come up with a far better deal than where we started. i'm happy to endorse it. the council community housing organizations is happy to endorse it. and, supervisor wiener, you should rejoice. this is the closes

reporting in sanford, florida, i'm chris welch. >> coming up.do where multiple wildfires are raging. tiny places that are usually packed with tourists are now ghost towns. we'll tell you how this fire could destroy more than just one town.and the ominous forecast today from officials -- that's coming up in about 8 minutes. >> the long wait for the decision on same-sex marriage is going to be a little longer. the justices of the supreme court finished today's room affirmative action but nothing on proposition 8 or the defense of marriage act. the court said it would hand down decisions tomorrow, and is expected to finish its term by the end of the week. san francisco city attorney says this is an important decision so it's easy to see why the supreme court would take its time. if >> it does not surprise me that here we are at the end of the terminal waiting for the decision. the core is very deliberate on how they make their decisions the court -- the court is being very delivered on their fate >> court is likely to finish either on wednesday or

many of the intelligence community blamed him for the assassination of cia station chief richard welchek terrorists, the very year his book came out. he always insisted that selling out his country constituted a matter of conscience. he despised the u.s. support of military regimes in south america, especially when it included torture. that, he maintained, fueled the engine of his treachery. he said often, quote, the more they did these dirty things, the more they made my realize what i was doing was important. there it was -- self fulfillment at its most grotesque. now in edward snowden, the young nsa technician, playing peekaboo with the world in hong kong, dishing out american secrets, the refrain is similar -- quote, i can't in good conscience allow the u.s. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world. although detain -- details of this newly minted traitor are scarce, in some ways, he seems cut from the same gray clothe. in 1975, i met with agee at his flat on the english coast. he was living with a brazilian girlfriend, whom he

i'm assuming that josh welch's parents want him to grow up and have a real job. >> i was suspended in the second grade for setting up a folded chair in the baths room and trying to cartoonishly pea in the urinal from the other side of the room. i close with that now. it was the first joke i ever wrote and i destroyed with my classmates. >> i didn't know why you needed to sit while doing it. >> no, i stood on top of the chair and urinated across the room. >> you were suspended for that? >> yes. it was outside the box, clever, thinking. that was the joke. i peaked right on the floor directly in front of me. the urinal was a good 15 feet away. >> the nra gave him a free lifetime membership. >> there is the happy ending. >> this angered some gem crates who of erred -- some democrats who offered an aclu membership. >> a man charged with child endangerment for locking vandals in the closet. you said there are two reasons to lock in the closet. one is to keep them from get august way. let me give you two reasons i disagree. there are four kids. if they tried to run away and ran in different

we also have matt welch, editor in chief -- nyu political scientist professor and jamal simmons who worked for bill clinton, al gore and max cleland. raul, we just talked about everything that is up against this bill, this important gang of eight bill, what are the republicans facing off with this week that we're looking at that's important to distinguish between poison pills and real amendments? >> well, the main thing that's really i think will be a turning point is this john corn anyone amendment. because this could give republicans cover to not support the bill. they could say, if this isn't part of it, we won't be part of it. this cornyn amendment comes on top of so much border security but when you break it down, the big problem with the amendment is if takes the path to citizenship, it separates it from the people who are actually trying to go through that process, makes it contingent upon the department of homeland security and other the metrics that can be changed by different administrations or -- if the path to citizenship is not secure, not direct, this whole balance of the bil

democratic congressman peter welch, thank you, sir. >> thank you. >>> new life in the push for more effectiveun laws. first governor rick perry of texas shares his considered analysis of the attack on an american embassy in benghazi. or was it beirut? >> i fear that where we've come to in america where our administration won't make one phone call to save our men and women in an embassy in lebanon. >> whoops. [ female announcer ] doctors trust calcium plus vitamin d to support strong bones. and the brand most recommended by... my doctor. my gynecologist. my pharmacist. citracal. citracal. [ female announcer ] you trust your doctor. doctors trust citracal. bob will retire when he's 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire. but he's not. ♪ he's an architect with two kids and a mortgage. luckily, he found someone who gave him a fresh perspective on his portfolio. and with some planning and effort, hopefully bob can retire at a more appropriate age. it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. [ male announcer ] moving object detection. ♪ blind spot warning. ♪ lane de

and then there are things like stefan or herb welch, characters that i've done, i'll go-- i'll have an idea and work it out with the writer. >> rose: you owned that character at some point. >> coowned it. >> rose: what's interesting, too, as you talked ao't will ferrell and so many other people we forget how many people have come through "saturday night live," and it's been an important step in an evolving career. >> yeah. it's a huge thing to have loare, ne say, "you." >> rose: i want you. >> and your whole life changes. >> rose: how did you get there? >> i got there because megan mallaly saw he in a show in l.a., and she went to go see her brother-in-law, ned offerman, nick offerman's brother, and saw the show at second city l.a. and said, "you're really funny." i said, "thank you." i was an assistant editor on "iron chef america" and i was working and got a phone call from the head of the talent department saying lorne michaels would like to meet you. i thought it would be a story i would tell me kids, you know. i one time met him. and then -- >> does he come to see you perform? >>

politician who has stood up to members of his own party under the patriot act and today congressman peter welch. >> don't believe the hype over addiction. >> and i'm s.e. cuppen, indianapolis. i fled the coast for middle america, well, for the day anyway. but many americans are making it a permanent vacation to jobsland. >>> well, the se's

matt welch, editor and chief at reason magazine. good sunday to all of you. esther, let's start with you. americans have no need to worry about their privacy being come proo mized by the nsa surveillance plan, take a listen. >> it is absolutely overseen by the legislature, the judicial branch and executive branch, has lots of protections built in. you can see just the number of cases where we've actually stopped a plot. i think americans will come to a different conclusion that all the misleading rhetoric i've heard over the last few weeks. >> how convinced are you that the public's privacy is not being compromised? >> i think the trouble is, we have a situation right now where when it comes to the american public's confidence in congress, it's at an all-time low. the idea that they would necessarily buy politicians telling them they have nothing to fear, is not an argument they're going to accept. however, the polls show when it comes to national security issues, when that reasoning is invoked for any particular policy, it changes the way that the american p

joining us now is congressman peter welch, democrat from vermont who sits in the house oversight committeeessman, i want to start with a quote from a conversation between president clinton and senator mccain that said some people say, okay, see what a big mess it is. stay out. i think that's a big mistake. i agree with you, he says to senator mccain, about this. sometimes it's just best to get caught trying as long as you don't overcommit like as long as you don't make an improvedent commitment. what's your view of that? >> it doesn't tell us what would be the positive outcome of military involvement. here's the dilemma. every fiber of your being, it's a sea of heartache and suffering. we look for some definitive measure which gets translated into military action. the fact that we've got a desire to help doesn't mean we've got a practical way where we can stop a civil war or find a way to shoot our way to a solution. the hazards of action in escalation of our role on a military level i think far outweigh the benefits and would have a likelihood of making it appear that this is an american

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welch: thank you, mr. speaker. federal government spends more than $6.5 billion on energy costs every year to heat, cool and power roughly 500,000 buildings and facilities. currently the administration is auditing federal agencies for cost savings and has found billions of dollars that are available in savings and here's how it works. energy saving performance contracts allows a public-private partnership where the federal agency contracts with an energy service company to conduct energy audits and design and implement energy saving improvements. there's no cost to the taxpayer. the payment to the contractor comes from savings that are reaped down the line. it's a win-win-win. it leads to jobs. in fact, every $1 million of espc contracting results in the creation of 10 local jobs. espc's have proven themselves to drastically reduce carbon emissions. this is something we can and should do together. the money, improve environment and create jobs. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what pur

i want to bring in matt welch, reason.com. he is the rubber terry and.candal? >> the thing i'm most concerned about is the most innocent explanation. what if there was no political motivated instructions to these people? what if no one was talking about elections? what if all the ira's people sincerely thought they would doing their job? that is why we got what we have gotten. stuart: when your enemies have infiltrated government at the grassroots level and put their politics into practice with intimidation in the it is >> it could be. >> the people were attracted to the irs are attracted to the media are academic who don't work and the morning thinking have an agenda against conservatives but culturally that is where they tilt. and the police have an institutional bias against two pretty people,. >> elizabeth is being investigated by congress, one of the cincinnati people, she is the person who said it was carter hall naming names in d.c.. she is outraged about what happened. she is really upset about the demeaning nature of the orders she was getting.

chris welch is in philadelphia now with the if you think you've been >> pam: next to a north vietnamese flag which who consider assistance to many in the united states. investigators say that dna taken off of a postage stamp link the former supervisor to he has pled guilty on that and is awaiting sentence is awaiting sentencing. >> gary: >> jacqueline: the one place in the north bay because of fog did not have much of an influence so they work load so they were in the low seventies today. if you looked outside at the san mateo bridge harris satellite imagery we are appoint as to the widespread fog tonight. once again by the 6:00 hour but one difference will be the shift in the wind when will turn north instead of the west. by the 15 degrees with talk about the heat wave and extended forecast coming out. >> pam: we are following some developing weather news. the first named storm of the atlantic season has formed over the gulf. it's called tropical storm andrea. we'll keep an eye on it, and bring you any updates as they become available. >> pam: army staff sergeant robert bales pleaded g

someone tweeted out lipstick on the pig but it is racist and she agrees and sends out one about jack welch and are you put murdoch calling them angry old rich guys that hate obama and why don't they shut up and create jobs? this is an interesting person. >> and if you look at her group. her donors are public sector union and move on.org. it is clear where her politics lie. and that is not proof of anything in the irs scandal at large, but it gives you a glimpse of the politics discussed around the dinner table, in the shulman. >> we are 24 hours before the testifying of the groups that have been targeted by the irs. three of those are live with us today. spokesman i have to look my so bbest on camera.sing whether i'm telling people about how they could save money on car insurance with geico... yeah, a little bit more of the lime green love yeah... or letting them know they can reach geico 24/7 using the latest technology. go on, slather it all over. don't hold back, go on... it's these high-definition televisions, i'll tell ya, they show every wrinkle. geico. fifteen minutes could save you

welch. mr. welch votes no. mr. cardenas. mr. horsford. mr. horsford votes no. ms. grisham votes no. >> how is mr. mchenry ecorded? >> as voting aye. >> and mr. woodall, how is he recorded? >> mr. woodall has not been recorded. >> is there anyone else that seeks recognition to vote? >> you are recorded voting aye. >> the clerk will report. >> on that vote, 22 ayes, 17 oes. >> the resolution is agreed to. he resolution finding lois lerner waived her fifth amendment privileges on may 22, 2013, is approved. nd we stand adjourned. >> next on c-span, former florida governor jeb bush speaks at a fund riser for the conservative party of new york and then kentucky senator rand paul's remarks and later your live calls, tweets and emails on "washington journal." this morning on c-span, we'll bring you a live discussion of the supreme court's major decision during its 2012 term and also chief justice john roberts as he talks about the court and the constitution. guests include former solicitor neral theedor olson, linda greenhouse and other scholars. join us live at 9:00 a.m.

i would be remiss if i didn't mention the book that matt welch and i co-authored a couple of years ago which is available in paperback the declaration of independence and we come to similar focus on education, health care and pensions. these are the places where life is not getting better even though we are spending more and more money and in most places we where spending less money and getting more stuff. the reverse is happening. you also do great work by citing arnold clay and who is an adjunct scholar at cato and works with arkedis. he has written a series of three books that focus on these issues. this is just the way it is. government is screwing things up but kevin at one point asserts that politics, not only is politics violence but that the department of education is bureaucrats and other law -- are gangsters and he actually uses those terms. i want to pause on that. there's a lot to agree with that in such an assertion and certainly it's a great laugh line by kevin quotes the famous scene from the godfather in which michael corleone of the major mafia family and his wife who