new yorkers deserved better than they were getting. and new yorkers knew it. our capital was a symbol of the deterioration and the decline. it was under renovation for 11 years, believe it or not. scheduled to take four more years. by the time the renovation was finished we would have had to start a renovation all over again. the situation was grim. our people had problems, and our government didn't have the capacity or the credibility to be of sofs. we were at a crossroads. we had a choice to make, and we made the choice. we could he have remained dysif you thinkal and divided or come together to re-establish the government of the state of new york. and to go forward to rebuild our state. well, we made the right choice. we chose to begin to change the culture of albany. to put people first. to rebuild the trust. to restore our deteriorating capitol. the 234th legislative session had a historic success for the people of this state, period. let me ask the men and women of the assembly and senate, please stand so we can recognize you and give you a round of appl

but he's a new yorker first. we asked him to come back and leave washington to come put together our network. he agreed. we owe him a debt of gratitude. i'm excited to have him. let's give a big round of applause to jerry howard. >> part three, a new york version for a progressive future. we are still in a financial crisis. it's still taking a terrible toll on our state's homeowners. last year we created the department of financial redded by ben jan min lawsky. it was a new york state innovation, which combined financial regulation and consumer protection. this year we'll establish the foreclosure relief unit. which will provide counseling and mediation services to help banks resolve mortgages and help new yorkers stay in their homes, finally. last year we enacted the best tenant protections in 30 years. this year we're going to make sure the laws and regular lays are being enforced creating the protection unit at the department of homes and community renewal to investigate fraud and prosecute unscrupulous landlo

an interest saying interestingly the polls show that new yorkers they do support the n.y.p.d. as you just said the new york mayor michael bloomberg he is defending the actions of the n.y.p.d. what does that have to say about the mentality of some of the citizens even in new york city today. and why petey has instilled fear in new yorkers and has used talking points like the last fourteen foiled plots were by the n.y.p.d. which is absolutely incorrect it's actually been by citizens who have helped in that informing these pottsville this national security paradigm is really causing fear among people to believe that what the n.y.p.d. is doing is ok to profile and surveillance spy on an entire community in the name of national security so it's just a smokescreen and it's very unfortunate and if it were any other racial or ethnic group do you think that there would be even more of a public outcry than there is now i mean there isn't too much publicity over this do you think if it were another ethnic group that there would be more of more outrage over this i think the war on terror

we are new yorkers, a town of diversity. and to the extent where our police department has become so empowered that civil liberties become something that is secondary, then our nations beginning to decline. i wanted to raise that with you and hope that you look into that, madam secretary but my question is, when you testified before this committee at the beginning of this congress, you testified that the threat level was at the most heightened state since 9/11, your testimony was quoted for the basis of many meetings. a recent report issued by the try ankle center said that certains about a potential wave of home grown terrorism has not materialized over the lasts two years and terrorists incidents have declined. do we remain at that same posture given all we know and all the intelligence that has been gathered and expertise and are we still at the most heightened threat since 9/11? >> i think we live in a volatile world in a number of respects. as i said in my opening statement, we are dealing with evolving threats, they ch

we're new yorkers. a town of diversity. and to the extent where our police department has become so empowered that civil liberties become something that is secondary, then our nation is beginning to decline. i just wanted to share that with you and hope that you will look into that, madam secretary. but my -- my final -- my question, actually, is that when you testified between -- before this committee at the beginning of this congress, you testified that the threat level was at the most heightened state since 9/11. your testimony was often quoted by members of this committee as a basis for many hearings on radicalization and recruitment within the muslim community. a recent report says concerns about a potential wave of home-grown terrorism have not materialized over the past two years and terrorist incidence by those within the muslim community have declined. i want to know, do we remain in that same posture at this stage given what we know, given all the intelligence that has been gathered and expertise? and are we still

jane mayer for the new yorker. thank you both for joining us tonight. >> great to be with you. >> coming up, the man who's been arguing the liberal angle on television longer than of us doesn't like the obama administration's position on requiring religious employers to provide contraception coverage in their employees' health plans. mark sheels joins me now. later, how the susan g. komen foundation can begin to fix its image problem with one simple strategy. the truth. they haven't tried that yet. that's in the rewrite. and later, the couple who forced cal's proposition 8 into the courts where it has now been declared unconstitutional. they will join us. >>> republicans don't want a campaign against the president on foreign policy. they know that president obama is absolutely unbeatable on that front with huge favorable margins over the republicans in all polls on foreign policy. they want to go after president obama on social conservative issues, and now they think the president has given them one. campaign ammun

. -- a community that many modern new yorkers work to preserve. >> my father came from lebanon, he came in through ellis island. this is what i was told. he stayed here on washington street, of course some of his other family was here. if you could not afford to feed your family, everyone would say, we have extra. everyone was one big family. we all helped each other in good times and bad. >> the old comes down. >> art and expansion changed new york city in the 1940's and 50's. -- urban expansion changed new york city. much of the old neighborhood was demolished. >> we only have three buildings left -- a church, a tenement building, and a community center. i call this the trinity of the arab american immigration because you have all aspects of life -- church, home, community. >> it is these three buildings that local volunteers are hoping to preserve it. when that new construction forced the families to leave manhattan, they scattered and some came here to brooklyn where this church became the center of the community. >> i listened to people talk about washington street and it was a mod

her latest article appears in this week's issue of "the new yorker." thank you both for joining me tonight. i just want to take a look at the results in minnesota now with rick santorum being called the winner there. john harwood, this seems to be the night that the santorum campaign was able to stay alive. >> absolutely, they are. and as your guests were discussing a few moments ago, it's pretty embarrassing for mitt romney to have numbers this week against somebody like santorum who, yes, he's keeping his campaign alive, but he hasn't exactly been thriving in the contests up to now in nevada or in florida or in south carolina, for that matter. and for rick santorum to get up off the mat and really clean mitt romney's clock in missouri and minnesota has got to be concerning to the romney campaign. >> jane, you've been studying the romney campaign and the romney campaign's attack dog who you've written about this week in "the new yorker." they tried to downplay these results today as if absolutely nothing was happening. there's nothing to pay attention

a new yorker write being in the popular press in the north in june said oh, that they could find someone as dashing and plucky. one of the favorite court marshals i have ever seen among the 88,000 was of a quartermaster named simms in the fall of 1862. simms was court marshalled for treason. he said stonewall jackson has whipped us every time we fight him. and for saying such an outrageous thing, he was found guilty. a pennsylvanian, june '62, i'm sorry to say, i have frequently heard our men talk as though they believe jackson could not be whipped. in fact he has to become what might be called a bugaboo. all of this, attitudes will in the south and the north, where there had been no doubt of success in the north and not much hope for success in the south after henry and donaldson and all of the other problems, is what made jackson what he was in 1862. so while jackson's high ranking subordinates underwent a parallel if not exactly the same met a moetamorphosis, theyed a hall thought that he was dangerous, crazy, and so on. by the end of the campaign, there were individuals who still fou

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. >> you have a wonderful piece out in the new yorker on dr.eek, and one of this notions you explores the remnant. he likes to call himself a keeper of the old age. it's a network of enlightened souls capable of transforming civilization. we talk about santorum and the rhetoric around christianity, ron paul feels he has a mission here and the mission may almost eeclipse the candidacy in some respects. >> and it's funny, they talk about a similar way, when santorum talks about america as this great experiment that comes under threat from satan, ron paul has kind of a secular version of that, where he has america as a democratic experiment and it's free, it geget s wealthy and then you have to start all over again. there's very much even in ron paul a kind of almost spiritual narrative of decedence and rebirth that he feels needs to happen. >> we want to hear more of that, we will expect to hear more from your candidate tonight at the debate and thank you for joining us. we hope to have you back to the program soon. coming up, will immigration co

. >> jimmy: so you're, like, a new yorker now. and are you enjoying it? are you getting around?tro card? how do i help you? >> i have been taking -- well, in the very beginning, when i first moved here, i was trying to, like, be a good new yorker and really kind of learn the subway systems. and we've been shooting in all over. we actually shoot in staten island. and i've had a lot of different run-ins with public transportation here in new york, 'cause i'm an l.a. girl. i'm born and raised in l.a. very spoiled to get into my car and drive from one destination to the next. >> jimmy: yeah, they tried the subway. it sank into the ground. >> yeah. >> jimmy: journey to the center of the earth. "journey 3: the subway in l.a." [ laughter ] just take it into tar pits. >> it didn't work so well. >> jimmy: yeah. >> and actually, my first time taking the staten island ferry, i was, like, okay, this is a real new york experience. >> jimmy: oh, it's amazing. it's beautiful. >> it's amazing. it's kind of almost like a tourist thing you can do to see the statue of liberty, and i had my little

>> i'm a giants fan being a new yorker. it was a fantastic game, thrilling. couldn't imagine -- maybe patriots fans didn't find it so thrilling. any objective observer would have to. >> it's a thrilling thing to watch. i have never sat through an entire super bowl show. apparently it got the highest ratings in history. it's an amazingly patriotic affair, isn't it? from the chicken wings to commercials, everything. put it all together, the real heart beat of america. >> sort of survey of american culture at any given moment. this year at least we were spared a wardrobe malfunction. american commercial enterprise. a patriotic fervor, pop culture, madonna now is mainstream, that shows us how much america has gone in the past couple of decades. a great barometer of a lot of things and a tremendous amount of fun. i think more people watched it or almost as a many people watched it sunday as voted in the last election. >> that's right. the parallels with the political situation are pretty straightforward in the sense you have two, i would say relatively close compe

new york. >> it was good day to be a new new yorker.eds of thousands of giants fans maybe upwards of a million cheered the superbowl champion during the parade along broadway in lower manhattan. quarterback and game mvp eli manning showed off the lombardi trophy. coach coughlin players and staff received key to the city at the end of the parade outside city hall. very exciting day for new york giants fans. >> the federal government released new list today detailing the top 10 sources of sodium in what americans eat every day. bread and roll top the list. not because of the salt content but because we tend to eat so many of them. top 5 also include cold cut. pizza. poultry and soup. a lot of salt in soup. nutritionist say we should eat a maximum of teaspoon per day but we consume more than that. >> group of young performers headed back to the old west in musical opening night art education project saturday and as don sanchez explains it's really something. ♪ . >>reporter: welcome to the rough old west town in the 1959 musical. performed

. >> some new yorkers were surprised to find squatters' when they arrived at their miami get away. there were also narcotics, a weapon, streets were closed off. the squatters also had a pet pig. an elementary school teacher's aide is accused of the videotaping himself sexually abusing students. police arrested the aide for distributing child pornography when they found the videos. the videos included two take advantage classroom, another of the man -- taken in a classroom, another of them and spanking a naked child. classes are closed and the staff of the los angeles elementary school is removed over sexual abuse allegations. a teacher was arrested over allegations he performed other acts on the students. another teacher was arrested on allegations of fondling kids in the classroom. still to come, details on how to protect yourself from hidden fees. "rock center" moves to a new night and adds a new face. >> a storm is coming. not a big one, but it has a combination of rain and snow. we will look at the forecast and what happens for the evening rush hour in a minute. capt. roy has g

(laughter) and like all true new yorkers, right now i am caught up in the tidal wave that is new york nicks point guard jeremy lin. (cheers and applause) this kid... this kid... high five! (laughter) this kid has single-handedly done the unthinkable: made people want to watch the new york nicks! (applause) >> in one week he's gone from the bench to the top of the n.b.a., he wasn't drafted out of college. two n.b.a. teams-- rockets and golden state warriors cut him-- the income nicks scooped him up but sent him down to the d-league and because of injuries he was called back to the team and in one week this unknown asian american with a degree in economics from harvard has put up le bron james like numbers. >> he came out of virtually nowhere. >> stephen: yes, he came out of nowhere which is my nickname for harvard. (laughter) folks, you know things are rough when a harvard economics grad has an easier time getting a job as an n.b.a. point guard than a wall street bond trader. (laughter) folks, i'm not some fair-weather fan. i've been behind my boy lin since day one of some time last we

. ♪ >> reporter: "new yorker magazine" says jeffreys oozes new york with music from his new album, saturday ♪ ♪ >> reporter: rogers the legendary delta slide guitarist returns home to vallejo to celebrate the 100 anniversary of the empress theater, saturday night. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: musical of the old west with students at the san francisco arts education program in the eureka theater. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the jazz orchestra performs -- don sanchez, abc7 news. >>> oscar sunday is a little more than a week away february 26th. you can find the best videos, blogs by logging on to oscar.com. >> and you can download the app for access to the red carpet and backstage. >>> friday's perfect pet, mike is back with misty. >>> today at 3:00, della reese. then it is being called a major breakthrough in autism research. and the double whammy for a former muni worker retrained in a program the state has now shutdown. those stories and more later today. >>> let answers the week with a little happiness. we are talking perfect pet. >> mike nicco has a couple new friends. >> a little happiness is right we have a

washington in mount vernon's new education center, we figure if we join an audience of 10,000 new yorkers on a history making spring day in 1789. intensely aware of his place on stage, the man at the center of the action has long grown accustomed to watching himself being watched. on april 30th, 1789, his lead part in a largely unscripted drama at the head of a government is yet more conceptual than real. quote, we now stand in independent people and have yet to learn political tactics. washington told his youthful protege and son, we are based on the earth and have a character to establish. in many ways washington's vision of the american republic was to be an extension of his own character. because he credited harsh self-discipline in realizing his personal destiny, he embraced a energetic government as the only means of protecting a fragile union from flying apart. because he balanced executive vigor with personal restraint, he gave us a government strong enough to lead and wise enough to listen. at what cost to his own repose and piece of mind. the roar of the crowd compensated for th

it was tantamount to treason as susan saw tech lost her job with the new yorker and others suggested. our enemies were evil or in st. anne that is the end of the story. to this day under the obama administration, american tax dollars pay for workshops that teach the police and military that islam is an evil religion out to destroy america and we must therefore be destroyed first. these workshops go on all the time well funded by the government. once again it is civilization versus the savages. george cannon tried to warn the american government that making a monolith out of communism was a gross misunderstanding and there were huge concepts between russia and china. but it requires cardboard figures begin to american presidents from truman on paid no attention to his advice. a similar thing with respect to islam. turns out only 10% of american muslims -- for most of them islam is more of a social thing than anything else. they are a lot like the jews. go to synagogue and talk to people and each and even then very few religious muslims are jihadists but when your identity is a negative

he's a hero to both new yorkers and asians everywhere. sidely many chinese and taiwan he's fans are prevented from seeing jeremy lin play due to media censorship. i went to witness these human rights abuses firsthand under the iron grip of totalitarian rule the streets were filled with wary glances, suspicion and fear. a brave few were willing to put their lives in danger by speaking to me. it's very nice to meet you. >> it's very nice to meet you. >> i'm surprised here in china you would speak english that well. >> this is chinatown. >> i don't know why i took a plane here. >> reporter: ironically while television viewers in china and taiwan can see jeremy lin viewers in new york's chinatown cannot. >> blacked out on time warner for seven weeks. >> there have been no meaningful decisions between time warner cable.... >> two million people can't see the knicks play. >> reporter: one chinatown resident described the oppressive living conditions he is forced to endure. >> in my building we can't get direct tv or any other service like veriz

to the veterans, child hood friends, new yorkers and arkansans who travelled across the country telling anyone who would listen why you supported me. and to all of those women in their 80s and their 90s, born before women could vote, who cast their votes for our campaign. i told you before about florencestein of south dakota, who was 88 years old and insi insisted that her daughter bring an absentee ballot to her hospice bedside. her daughter and friend put an american flag behind her bed and helped her fill out the ballot. she passed away soon after and under state law her ballot didn't count but her daughter later told a reporter, my dad's an ornery cow boyd and didn't like it when mom's vote didn't counted. i don't think he voted in 20 years but voted in place of my mom. to all those who voted for me and to whom i pledged my utmost, my commitment to you and to the progress we seek is unyielding. you have inspired and touched me with the stories of the joys and sorrows that make up the fabric of our lives and you have humbled me with your commitment to our country. 18 million of you f

. >> it makes you think of sophisticated new yorkers and '30's movies getting out of a cab and the doormen ushering women through the rain. canopies on hyde street with rod iron brackets. >> gorgeous brackets. >> many of these have glass roofs and this might originally have been. i don't know how it was built, but i wouldn't be surprised. >> it looks like it was designed to be glass. everything about it does. >> here is a glass. gorgeous thing. >> look at the cantenary curve. >> it's beautiful. >> here is a special issue that harvey wanted to raise today. >> quite a few examples of classically inspired designed that then sometimes inexplicably, as in this case decide decide not to be symmetrical. so you have above the entrance five bays, an odd number, just what you are supposed to have. and so the entrance is supposed to be centered under it. all temple fronts on odd number of bays, one, three, et cetera. why did they move it? it's bizarre. >> why do you think, harvey? do you think it was a planning issue or do you think they intentionally did this to dare to be different and create tensi

cambridge and i did it with john seabrook who is in new york writer who did a really wonderful new yorker piece about two years ago. he started the conversation by saying i was fascinated when i got into this to discover david wanted to be a writer and after 30 years he has finally written a literary nonfiction book. writers will do anything to procrastinate. including having an entirely different substantive career which i am here to talk about. so let's talk about what i spend those 30 years obsessing about. so we are a couple of weeks beyond the annual fall release of fbi crime numbers. i have a little bet with myself. i wrote the editorial copy for that before the fbi numbers came out and i was exactly right as it turned out. news was good. despite the recession and everything else people thought they were going to drive the numbers higher once again in 2010, we had another decline. the homicide rate for the country came down another 4%. that is another pearl in a string of very good national years. violent crime rate is down to 1960s levels in many parts of the country and everybody

. >> new yorkers pride themselves on a lot of things. an unusual sight in manhattan today. a trio of flying people. not real people. an oregon company has invented flyable foam figures. they are remote controlled and are propelled by a motor. you are going to see them at the movie's pretty soon. it is like flying a potato chip. >> >> nice out there. our view were sent this in on facebook. -- viwere and this in on facebook. overnight tonight we will see temperatures into the 30's. tomorrow temperatures in the 50's. a sprinkle on sunday. overall, not a bad weekend. >> all right. not bad at all. brad, where we going? just a second. just, just one second. ♪ ♪ what are you looking at? don't look up there. why are you looking up? ♪ ♪ get outta the car. get outta the car. ♪ ♪ aryou ok? the... get in the car. get in the car! [ male announcer ] the epa estimated 42 mpg highway chevy cruze eco. from spending time together, to spending your lives together, chevy runs deep.

to the veterans and childhood friends and to new yorkers and arkansasians. who traveled across the country telling anyone who would listen, why you supported me. and to all those women in their 80s and their 90s born before women could vote, who cast their votes for our campaign. i have told you before about florence stein of north dakota, 88 years old and insisted that her daughter bring a absentee ballot to her hospice bed side, and they put an american flag behind her bed and helped her fill it out. she passed away and under state law, her ballot did not count but her daughter said, my dad is a tough cow boy, and was not happy when he found her vote was not counted. he had not voted in 20 years, but he voted in place of my mom. [ applause ] so, to all those who voted for me and to whom i pledged by mosd the progress we seek is unyielding. you have inspired and touched me with the stories and the joys of sorrows that make up the fabric of our lives, and you have humbled me with your commitment to our country, 18 million of you from all walks of life [ appl