[applause] >> i want to think on this pride weekend and assemblyman who is here who spent many years of visiting a friend of his who was a resident at laguna honda. before i bring up the next speaker, i will tell you this story are probably should not, but i am going to tell you anyway because it's so exemplifies the next speaker. i am going to ask that you imagine the scene. it is 1998. i am in the office with mayor willie brown, who i still could not find enough mr. mayors to say his name. louise comes in to discuss the future of laguna honda hospital. she had just won this huge settlement with the tobacco company. she was the first of any local city attorney to join in that lawsuit. at the time, a lot of people were arguing tobacco companies would overwhelm us. there will be all of these freedom of information act. you should not do it. she stood bravely and did it. she said to the mayor, and i will never forget -- she said "we have this opportunity. we can either use this money to rebuild laguna honda or we can pass it away -- piss it away." that was the exact quote. [applause] b

those who died here, those who saved lives here, they help me believe. we may not be able to stop all evil in the world but i know that how we treat one another, that's entirely up to us. (applause) and i believe that for all our imperfections we are full of decency and goodness and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us. (applause) that's what i believe. in part because that's what a child like christina taylor green believed. (applause) imagine for a moment here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy. just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship. just starting to glimpse the fact that someday she, too might play a part in shaping her nation's future. she had been elected to her student council. she saw public service as something exciting and hopeful. she was off to meet her congresswoman, someone she was sure was good and important and might be a role model. she saw all this through the eyes of a child, undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for

charlie rangel is a hero of hours, but all of those who fought, who died, who were wounded, and who came want to particularly acknowledge those of you who wear the uniform to date. who are the successors to those we honor 60 years later. thank you for your service. i think all of the hundreds of thousands you represent in every one of the branches of the armed services. keep us free. keep us safe. keep us more secure. let them know that not only do we remember the korean conflict, but we remember them this day, at this hour as they serve at the point of the spear in harm's way. [applause] we have heard the korean war called the forgotten war. i would ask, forgotten by whom? not by the 5.7 million americans who struggled and starved and shivered through the the caribbean winter, not by the people who loved the 37,000 soldiers that did not come home, and not by history, which puts the korean war at the start of a half century struggle to spread -- to check the spread of communist tyranny. it is a war that sits uneasily in our memory because it was a war of shifting aims and uncertain end.

worked wonders to heal those who had been hurt. we are grateful for them.

[applause] and a man who went to bed on saturday night, a cop with a badge and who woke up on sunday morning a new d.a., george gason. [applause] city attorney twice elected in san francisco, and usually without opposition, dennis herrera. [applause] a member of the board of education and from your administration, mr. newsom, hydra mendoza. [applause] the assessor for the city and county of san francisco, phil teng. the treasurer of the city and county of san francisco, jose cisneros. [applause] the public defender and the man that first whispered to george, you should be the d.a., jeff hadachi. one of the judges with whom we have worked for years, lilian singh. [applause] and of course the woman who was your lifeline from here to hong kong when you were trying to escape this awesome responsibility, rose pack. [applause] fire chief of the city and county of san francisco, joanne hayes white. and a man whose work as an architect in three or four administrations, a man that i got from the board of supervisors years ago, he became deputy chief of staff and then chief of staff under mayo

i'd like to acknowledge my grandfather, bish shop cohen, who -- bishop cohen, who is approaching 90. [applause] who spent his life and his career in labor as a

i wonder who? on the day of march 1st in the 5th year after the second millennium, a massacre took place in babylon. it's my pleasure it introduce the next poet, george evans. . >> first, i would like to read a poem by my dear friend and wife, daisy samora, who was to be here today but is in nicaragua, keeping in mind what michael said about jorge and casablanca, i will read it in her language or my spanish first, then in translation. it's a poem directly addressed to poets but certainly to activists as well. (speaking spanish) no man's land. we are a mine field of clarity and whoever crosses the barbed wire comes back to life. but who is interested in crawling through undergrowth? who dares sail a tempest? who wants to come face to face with purity? that's why we're fenced off in this no man's land under permanent cross fire. three bomb holes. flag study. red. she walks into the bright vegetable garden, chopped water to life from brittle landscape, leans her hoe against goat wire,

[laughter] but for all the people who have voted for me, who have entrusted me in this position, i just can't tell you how grateful i am for that. i wouldn't be here without you, and it's been truly an honor for me to serve you and i look forward to continuing to make sure that san francisco is the best place that it can be. i do want to say a few thanks to my campaign team, to maggie, maureen, jeff, jim, nancy, all my volunteers. this is the best campaign i've ever had. running unopposed is quite nice, thank you very much. [applause] to my staff katie, to tammy. i wouldn't be here without you. you keep me going every single day in the office with your humor, hard work, and trust in me. so i want to say thank you to you. so many hours, as many as the new supervisors will come to know, are shared with your staff, and we really couldn't do it without them. so i want to say thank you to katie and tammy and all my volunteers in the office. to my family and my friends who have come today, every day when we come back from a hard day when we've had 10-hour meetings to figure out who the interi

tom is the guy who is working to fix the filibusters and mark udall his cousin is the man who suggested this... that everybody sit with another member of his or her party. there is secretary sebelius. secretary donovan. helping me all evening are shields and gerson that's sind i caned columnist mark shields and "washington post" columnist michael gerson. there we just saw the supreme court. a quick shot of the supreme court. i haven't had a chance to count them. have either of you, michael or mark, there are supposed to be six present. ahead of time they said there would be six. the three who are not here are justice alito, justice scalia and justice thomas. but i see justice roberts, chief justice roberts is here. everybody who was watching the last time. it wasn't at the state of the union. it was at the joint session of congress where president obama addressed a joint session of congress for health care reform. he made a comment, the president did, about the supreme court decision on campaign finance. justice alito shook his head. it became a bigdeal. here is william livinggood who i

thank you for all of you who we spoke to about this. this is also a historic day for the asian-american community, for a community that has been here in san francisco for over 160 years. i am a product of that community. i know that ed and all of us who are of asian-american descent feel the legacy. and i want to thank all of you who have been part of this historic moment to make this happen and say that had is obviously not just obviously about a chinese american community or an asian american community, this is about the american dream, the idea that anyone from any background of any color, from any part of the globe can come here and some day be at the very top of what our community is about. [applause] >> in closing i also want to say this is a historical moment because we have seen the orderly transition of leadership. what we have done at the board at city hall is what separates a democratic society from less democratic ones, free communities from less free ones. we have overseen a truly orderly and wonderful transition of leaders

who was also wounded. our prayers are with those who are struggling to recover from their injuries, including our dear friend and my classmate gabby. gabby's husband, mark kelly, and all the family members of the victims. we are all one family, as we say in hawaii, united in our collective aggressive and prayers. i was listening to n.p.r. this morning and learned the evening before this terrible tragedy -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from iowa. mr. braley: i yield the gentlelady an additional 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: put the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. hirono: gabby reached out to a republican of her state to talk to him about ways that we both, we all could tone down the political rhetoric and partisanship and at this point we don't know what drove the gunman to commit this horrible act of violence, regardless whether his actions have a causal connection with an increasing i had negative tone of our political discourse, i think this tragedy should give us all pause to reflect

between the people who are residents, merchants, and everyone who is a stakeholder of the city, to solve problems and make incredible things happen, and i have worked with thousands of city employees, and i have such respect for all of you and recognize you have mistakes, and sometimes they become the focal point, but at the end of the day people who dedicate themselves to sit the service and public service are people who deserve our respect -- 2 city service and public service are people who deserve your respect and support. i want to thank rebecca, and i want to say that when my child was born and there was serious criticism about the intentions we showed, my colleagues stood behind me and knew i wanted to have a child and wanted to have one here in san francisco, because i thought this was a wonderful place to raise a young person, and i knew this would be my life's calling, and i have learned from all of you as parents, those of you who are parents and even watching the new parents who have been touched by shawn and will often say he took some cues from may and avoided some others an

, who is in custody. police are looking for a second unidentified man for reasons not yet clear. flags are at half staff and congressional leaders have canceled next week's session, which was to include a vote on repealing health care. we begin this morning in tucson with cbs news national correspondent ben tracy. >> reporter: the shooting suspect lived just about ten minutes from this strip mall here, which is blocked off this morning. this, of course, is where this horrific event happened yesterday. you know, the more we learn about 22-year-old jared loughner, the more troubled he seems. his friends and classmates are describing him as mentally unstable. they say, in recent weeks, he was often erratic. he was actually kicked out or at least suspended from his community college this fall and told to get a mental healthy valuation. now, we also know that at some point he tried to enlist in the army but he was rejected. for privacy reasons, the army cannot say why. but perhaps most telling is really a seri

i want you to understand who i am. my grandmother, right after i was elected, sent me a letter from my great aunt, who has now passed, her sister, who was the first african-american woman to serve as acting mayor for new orleans, louisiana, in the 1980's. so i'm coming from a legacy here of strong leadership. and i will continue to bring that strong leadership to san francisco. not just the district 10 residents, but for everyone. my mother and my father edward and loretta have managed to build a wonderful life together, going on 34 years. and i am so honored and so thankful. my mother is a clinical child therapist, a social worker by trade. and my father climbed telephone polls. he also comes from labor. a strong commitment to working hard and an incredible dedication to his family. i've got four incredible younger sisters. dr. jennifer cohen. we've got erica, ho is not able to be with us. today. we have marlena and katherine. and i'm also very excited to be here speak before my 13-month-old niece. thank you. and the

was the one who took this photo. franz konrad had a very different story. he was surely not destined to become a nazi initially. he was born in the austrian alps in 1905 and was a member of the social democrat party. he was even the treasurer of the local party and spied on the nazis. similar story to other cases. he was a person of the world. he played chess, he sang this a choir -- in a choir, he was worth -- worked in a co-op food chain x his downfall began -- and his downfall began in 1932 when he was arrested by the austrian police for stealing 900 schilling from the food cooperative. and he was sentenced to three months in jail, and that was a point where the nazi party kicked. his attorney was probably the one who introduced him to the nazi party, and over the three months that he was in jail, the nazi party supported his family. it was the one who also offered him a job when he came out of prison as a road constructer. and at that point he joins the ss, becomes an administrative officer and in his local ss de

who do you turn them over to?here is a rotten, corrupt government. >> do they have control over what goes on in those valleys? >> i think the idea of pulling back is going to happen. ihink you may see some movement in the next year. i think he is looking a t t a decent way, and not a cut-and- run strategy. the u.s. is able to withdraw and not with afghanistan. >> wi don't have ot oto disagree with. there is no clear endgame. general petraeus was able to take over the south, protecting the population. it is good obama has withdrawn from 2011 and every afgone was wondering i ty would stay with the americans. putting it off helps in recruiting assistance. we can have a short-term success. you don't have to have a pristine government. they have never had an un- corrupt government. it is part of their culture. >> look at pakistan. what countries in that area, espeally the ones -- >> they have a strong army. >> let's stick with afghanistan. >> i am not an expert. but when it comes to politics. >> we are on television. >

i want you to understand who i am. my grandmother, right after i was elected, sent me a letter from my great aunt, who has now passed, her sister, who was the first african-american woman to serve as acting mayor for new orleans, louisiana, in the 1980's. so i'm coming from a legacy here of strong leadership. and i will continue to bring that strong leadership to san francisco. no

who stands up for you? who would you like to look at in world war ii? in terms of the leadership of our forces? >> well, there are a lot of good ones. there tends to be a denigration of the u.s. military by some historians that whenever there mocked a battalion fought in american battalion or one regiment fought an american regiment that the germans tend to be tactically superior that mono monitor the better military. this is just nonsense because it's pointless. global war is a clash of systems. it is which systems have produced the wherewithal to project power in the atlantic, the pacific, the indian ocean, southeast asia which system can produce for the civilian leadership to create the transportation systems, the civilian leadership that is able to produce 96,000 airplanes in 1944 so when you look at it that way, you can see that really particularly when we have got the russians pleading for us that the comparison of german and american forces are german and anglo-american forces and a small tactical level is life and pointless. if you look at indiv

there's, on the one hand, people who are transitionally homeless, people who spend very short periods of time in one of the emergency systems and then who basically make it out on their own, as well as people who are chronically homeless, who spend many, many years or months in homeless shelters or on the streets. and even among the chronically homeless, there are a number of people who spend primarily most of their time on the streets, as opposed to other people who spend a lot of time in homeless shelters. and then another category of people who cycle in and out of many different kinds of homeless services, as well as emergency services and institutions. and, robert, there are so many aspects to doing outreach to the homeless population. what are some of the approaches that one uses to really go out and identify these individuals? well, one of the approaches which we use is visit. we visit a lot of shelters. we visit a lot of shelters, we go to a lot of the rooms of recovery individuals, because you find a lot of individuals that are homeless that are seeking help. they tend to go t

who is the audience for this biography? who are you trying to reach out to?what are -- >> guest: everybody who uses a computer. but since there's so much history in it, i think there's a lot in it about the 20th century and how it unfolded. atanasoff was born in 1903. he died in 1995. his life pretty much spent the 20th century come and was asthmatic about how the 20 century work in some ways. but i guess my general, my general -- >> host: i hope it was written in a way, and finally, what has been the response from atanasoff's family, others? what do they think of your take? >> guest: his family likes it. i got an e-mail from his son adding a few little details. and i say we can put those in the paperback. and he said who cares? they like it. and i have not gotten much of a response from the others, you know, but these people were born a hundred years ago. anybody who is still carrying the torch, for whatever side, is pretty far removed from the actual incidence. i tried to be as objective as possible, and as accurate as it could be. and to say it's not about

you want to be only the one who does what you do. his commitment to public health in san francisco is second to none. he has done an extraordinary job leading by example. this is a city that is doing things that no other city in the united states of america could even imagine doing, things that even when we had all the resources in the world and all the capacity, things that cities could not do. this commitment to an acute care, facility, a skilled nursing facility -- what county is having a ribbon cutting on a new nursing facility in this modern age? and what city and county can lay claim to comprehensive universal health care, regardless of pre- existing conditions, regardless of your ability to pay? dr. mitch kastz has been the architect of all of this. thank you for your leadership. there is the old play towline that if there is any hope for the future of those with lanterns will pass them on to others. let me talk about those that carry bright lights, that pass those lanterns on to others. many of them you will hear in just a mo

and dorothy morris who was married to her husband a long time, who was there but who survived. my thoughts and prayers remain with gabby and with each victim and their families. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from virginia. mr. cantor: madam speaker, i yield to the gentleman from kentucky, mr. guthrie, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for two minutes. mr. guthrie: thank you, madam speaker. i appreciate the opportunity to be here, to offer my thoughts and prayers for gabby, our colleague. like all of us here, any interaction i've had with her was always pleasant and memorable and i look forward to her returning, pray for her return, pray for her staff and pray for the other victims. i want to hold mr. upton: one victim this morning. i didn't know dorwin stoddard but through a close network of friends i've had the opportunity to learn a little bit about dorwin stoddard and he's the one that shielded his wife with his own body, saving her life but losing

and who is he saying it to? no. this was the king of saudi arabia saying it to the british foreign ministry in official protest of 90 minutes which i quote complet

who could who could be these stories. b >>> representative gabrielle giffords reached an important milestone in her recovery today. she left the hospital in tucson and flew to houston where she is due to start her long journey of rehabilitation. one of her doctors made the trip with her and said the cheering crowds lining the streets of tucson brought tears to giffords' eyes. doctors at texas medical center plan to start the congresswoman's therapy immediately. they'll also spend the next few days evaluating the extent of her injuries. giffords hasn't spoken yet. it's unknown whether she will suffer permanent disability. >>> meanwhile, another survivor of the shooting is talking about the agony she now lives with. suzy heilman is the woman who brought 9-year-old christina green to meet her congresswoman. she was shot three times. while her physical wounds are healing, her emotional scars are still very raw. it is heart benching to hear about her survival and her loss. >> congresswoman giffords is headaching hands with the

who is affected by this? the media often portrays it as criminals walking free, but we do have the presumption of innocence in this country, and the question we should be asking is how do these unjust acts affect everyday persons. you might think, i will never have any contact with this. what does it matter? whether you are a juror, a witness, a victim, or god forbid you find yourself as the accused in a criminal case, you want to make sure there is a system in place that has integrity, that has professionalism, and this is not to say that in san francisco we do not do a great job of creating just outcomes, but these are huge problems, and they raise even greater questions. role of the public defender is the role that is often not known. the public defender has the responsibility of defending the public, whether we enforce the bill of rights, whether we insure the constitution, including the right to effective counsel, are kept, whether it is making sure the individual is protected against the machinery of th

the people who are democrats who supported gavin newsom to be lieutenant governor did not want to see republicans remaining in office for an extended week, or who knows how long it is going to be until lieutenant governor- elect gavin newsom feels that he is ready to assume office. god forbid if something were to happen to our present often under -- our present governor, jerry brown, abel modlinato would be our new governor, and a belief he would be our governor for four years. i believe we would be very let down to know that we have given up our governor's seat to a republican. [applause] supervisor campos: if i may, mr. president, a follow-up question to what supervisor elsbernd was asking about outside counsel. there is no case directly addressing the issue of the legality of when a person becomes lieutenant governor. talking about the fines in damages supervisor elsbernd was referring to in terms of an individual being subjected to them -- if the court found that gavin newsom was not legally the mayor of san francisco and he were to make an appointment of a district attorney, woul

goes to the core of who he is. he thought deeply about things, and those thoughts motivated his actions. today our political society desperately needs a few or at least one pat moynihan, someone propelled by a knowledge of history and a faith in reason sailing strongly or herself; that's who i want to be. we'd all be better off for itment. [applause] >> don't forget your speech. well, thank you, chuck. thank you, senator schumer, and thank you all for being here to honor senator moynihan and to honor this book. you know, i'm just not going to be able to improve on what senator schumer said, and i just wanted to offer a few perm thoughts -- personal thoughts before we open it up to this wonderful panel and to your questions. and have a conversation. but first, of course, i want to thank the sponsors of this evening, especially susan jones who has been such a tower of strength and a brilliant organizer in bringing, getting the word out and having all of you come here. and, of course, like the others i want to pay tri

have a moral conscience, who have some kind of economy, branding them as sympathetic economies. of course many of these people who were pushed out or not communists, although having lived in europe including italy there is nothing under our constitution that prohibits a communist party. i believe that we purport to support the free exchange of political thoughts and ideas, and the liberal class without that counterweight of radical movements to keep them honest began to disembowel themselves. now the liberal class serves an important function in a state, and that function is to fold. it acts as a kind of safety valves. it makes piecemeal and incremental reform possible. and the sestak sable how the liberal class works would be with a breakdown of capitalism in the 1930's and the rise of the new deal. we had essentially figures like franklin roosevelt or the great henry wallace leader in his own presidential campaign in 48 smeared for being soft on communism and turned into a political pariah. the last major political figure we had with me be the exception of george mcgovern to c

>> did he want to be the madonna who gave birth to this miraculously creation of the one who kills their own offspring? but then through 2008 and part of 2007, one of the things when he made the unconscionable statement he made on fox news we have good genitalia of a future president threatened. [laughter] by some of his stature. i thought there had to be something deeper. and it was not a hard to understand. 2008 and the relentless barrage of media coverage, we see almost nothing about jesse jackson and the fact with his 88 campaign really open the door for barack obama presidential campaign. i don't mean that symbolic terms. and it is an amazing person with someone to read at howard university ron walters. >> he also worked closely with the jackson campaign. >> this is where was going. a chief strategist for the 88 campaign, i called him and asked him and when we see that complicated mask in when mispricing gets this money are that many, that is one of the main things jesse jackson sought in the 2008 campaign to have a delicate system and did you have in mind to help pay by a president

who's going to -- okay. any questions or comments for either one of us or anybody that would like to make a statement or testify? [laughter] >> okay. >> yes. >> sir, thanks. >> one thing i find very interesting that's often not really emphasized but you two did today, how do speech writers kind of -- do they struggle with this kind of ghost authorship or lack of authorship that's being fully recognized? how do they deal with that? it's just something that i'm interested in. >> well, usually there's plenty of ego to go around. so that's usually not the issue. but it's a great question because as a speech writer, you're not there to communicate what you think. you're there to communicate what your principal who you're writing for thinks. and can to write in their words and their voice. and be so that is a challenge. you have to get over very early on that this is not about you. you're not writing under your byline. and it's a very -- a great question because it's a really, it's an important thing you sit down

who loses? >> the people who have lost in the system by the growing number of high-school grads who are cut out and do not have decent jobs. for the time being -- in getting this is going to change. a very male-dominated cultural, but they're trying to do with the french are in terms of child care and family. at the end of the day in which country, france, united states, or germany, is it possible for a woman to rise to the highest position of the land? well, i think that is a temporary thing that is changing very rapidly. what is more disturbing is the people who are out of what they call the system who don't have these high skilled jobs. the question is, well, what to do. there is an easy answer. the answer is to do what we do, which is just have more environmental waste, fraud, cheating, and everything else. especially you look around new york city. you can see the answer. security people. more crime. the germans really, to pull these people into the system and eliminate unemployment and so f

come, regular san franciscans who would like to see the america's cup come to san francisco and who are actively participating and trying to help us finance it and actually get it to san francisco -- i do not think we can thank them all enough. there is the city staff, carry mcclellan, jennifer mattes, brad benson, monique moyer. the port has been remarkable. i would say the former port commissioner, we have great assets at the port of san francisco, but they are slowly starting to fall into the water. as we have seen with pierre 30/32, it has the shelf life of another, i think, 10 years. without some kind of revitalization, we could lose this asset. it is the same as you go down the port of sand and cisco. the america's cup gives us a great opportunity to rebuild that, to bring economic not just viability but a thriving economic community back to san francisco bay, so i would like to thank everyone who has been part of that. i would be remiss without thanking mark buell, who is heading the acoc, and also lucy, one of my constituents, a jewel to san francisco, who has been active on

as someone who knew daniel before he had been called a hero, as a friend, the one who stayed up lateany late nights of work and brought me many cups of coffee, i was not surprised to hear of his actions and selfless courage. toomey daniel exemplifies the spirit of used and in individual committed to his friends, community, and greater humanity. daniel is only a representation of many that stepped up and took action. those individuals are a symbol of the character found throughout this community, and thus the potential to act with kindness and to rise up when we have been called to do so. [applause] it is with great honor that i introduce to you, my friend, daniel hernandez, to say a few words. [applause] >> thank you, thank you. thank you. i would like to start up by thinking in a late but also with a few words, but first of which is e pluribus unum. never have those words been more true than today. we have come together. on saturday, we all became tucsonians, we became an arizonans, and above all, we became the americans. despite those actions, we saw glimmers of hope. these glimmer

>> you know who was there? at least 12 of the tea partiers there with lobbyists circling like sharks. the city is corrupting. people go there to change that city. time and time again, they get changed by that city. it's interesting to see what happens. >> i heard you want to not only for president but prime minister of israel. >> it's a two-fer. >> i thought for sure you already were. >> you know what makes me different? >> where do we start? >> what makes me different as a candidate. i just want solutions. i don't want to hear about whose fault it is anymore. i think that's what most americans feel today. >> how would you rule? >> we have to get together over this huge chasm these two sides pulled us apart. >> i had a bumper crop of crowbars this year. >> what? >> i heard you -- >> seriously, like you said, we want results. i think we differ on what the results are and how we get 'em obviously. >> are you a big supporter of obama? >> i'm a supporter of the president. like they always say in a time of war, you

so i can't reveal who the others are. but i felt i had good enough authority to have it in the book that nothing that they had would indicate that either attack or said tabloid. i would be interested in what they come up with. to be continued. [inaudible] >> there is the supreme court came came down this summer that has applied to cases like a nondisclosure something that should have been disclosed to the other parties or concealment it said that no longer comes to tuesday criminal violation on a services statute. that is the only thing that i've played too. they made it real clear, including the judge's statements and no, that that was not in any way fleeing. they are services that is and made it clear that the supreme court upheld that, but the thing in court how the nondisclosure no longer constitutes a violation. >> i'm glad we have a lawyer here to ask by name. it has that kind of thrown up my hands on the whole services argument. not only does that feel like he's got a strong argument, i've had a number of other ver

to jeroboam felt, who argued the same period -- to jared blue bell, who argued the same. to others who felt we could do more and better. to yakut, always keeping us back on track and saying, open court are not care how you do it. my professional responsibility is reliability, and here's how i think you can get their." i cannot impress upon you how fortunate we were to have him. every time we pick up the phone, he answered. every time we wanted a straight answer, he gave it. he had a lot of political pressure and a lot of folks that wanted him to say something different, but he had a fiduciary responsibility to say what he thought was right, but he always was there to provide direction and counsel, and i wanted to publicly state that because he was a fundamental linchpin and an incredibly important person in helping us move this process along. to the puc staff, so all the commissioners, i thank you for your guidance and counsel and your hard work. you were critical and central to this effort. to the city attorney's office, you were central in this effort, and were critical

that who are oppressed now and who are paying them dearly. i think what i am doing now where even if it costs me a few years in prison is a small price to pay and even if i go to prison for this i will be free. i will have been free enough to make the right decision that i will feel that despite the contract i signed to become a soldier i gave myself the freedom to make the right decision. it is the end. of his. last. am. lucky i am. it is is. it. wealthy british style. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max keiser for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on r g. l. o l. in the backyard i'm not landed we will not i'm not trying to crop up and then spread all over the country. virtually all terrorists today are muslim do we have the right to make such provocative statements and do muslim schools have the right to exist. in defined new york city.

who along the way -- who else saw this and who didn't get this kid either into treatment or -- i guessve been wanting to hear from them to hear what the story is. it is weird all of the interaction he had with representative giffords. he went to one of her other meetings. >> almost a stalking. >> they had an exchange. he asked her a question and it made no sense according to the friend. she tried to answer it and he was upset that she didn't understand what he was saying. >> so many of his not just e-mails but i guess his rantings on the internet were basically everybody was illiterate, everybody's stupid, nobody gets it, there's mind control. he's the one that sounded like -- he's the one with the problem. >> yeah. >> so he's going to be tried, they're saying, basically for the federal crimes. >> there were six people who died, including that little 9-year-old girl. >> a federal judge and three elderly people. >> an aide and a young girl who's 9. got bless her family, dallas green's little granddaughter. there is a little 9-year-old that lives at our house named julia. she's just the

there are indians who drew pictures of him and who knew him, and some of these pictures are great. the style of drawing called ledger art which i love, and it's called that because the paper that was used by these indians mostly came from military posts and trading posts, and it came out of ledger books initially. and they would draw them in pencil or pen and then color them in with either crayons or water colors. and there are a number of drawings of crazy horse in battle and in counsel-type situations. there's a likeness of that kind but no photograph. all these other indians of the plains, the sioux indians, almost every single leading figure has left bemind not just -- behind not just one or two, but in many cases many photographs. red cloud andier on mow and sitting bull must have been photographed hundreds of times. but no photograph of crazy horse. and crazy horse was buried in an unknown place. there's a whole mini literature about the burial place of crazy horse. it's kind of fascinating. and when you're out there in indian country -- which it still is on the pine ridge re

the witnesses who immediately tried to help those who were injured. the civilians who bravely stopped the shooter from injuring and inflicting more harm on others. the emergency room personnel, the emergency personnel overall , whose decisive action saved other lives. these are the true examples of the spirit of what america is all about. it's important to remember that this wasn't outrageous act by a deranged individual and despite all the talk of tone and rhetoric it's important to remember that we all in this house floor can disagree without being disagreeable. the fact is that we as public officials, madam speaker, in being accessible to the public, is an important part of our jobs and we cannot let this tragedy stop us from doing our important work. we are members of the people's house and the minute we start separating ourselves from the people is the minute that we weaken our republic. the events of tucson, the events in tucson remind us how fragile our lives are. we pray again for the victims and their families and we remember what really matt

>> well, first, i'm not speculating about, you know, who goes or who stays. i'm not, you know, prepared to comment on what kind of democratic process the egyptian people can construct for themselves. but we obviously want to see people who are truly committed to democracy, not to imposing any ideology on egyptians, and therefore we would like to encourage that people who have been the voice of protests and been the voice of civil society be the ones at the table trying to design what would be an orderly transition to meet the democratic and economic needs of the people. you know, bob, we're all very conscious of the fact that egypt is an incredibly important country, a large country with, you know, great influence in the region and meaning for the arab world. and we want to see the outcome of what started as peaceful protests, legitimately demanding redress for grievances, to result in a true democracy-- not a phony one like we saw with iranian elections, not to see a small group that doesn't represent the full diversity of egyptian society take over and try