the arguments today focused on kind of federal preemption notions, that it's the duty of the federal government to enforce immigration law, to write and craft immigration law and to decide who to punish. alabama simply doesn't have the authority to create its own immigration scheme. >> suarez: kris kobach, that's been the objection in a lot of states that have tried legislation of this kind. how do you answer that argument? >> well, the supreme court has answered it for me. the supreme court of the eyes has ruled on this issue of whether states can take steps to stop illegal immigration. let's be clear, it's about illegal immigration, not immigration generally. and the supreme court ruled once this past may, just a few months ago and said that arizona's twechk law to prevent employers from knowingly hiring unauthorized aliens, they upheld that law, ruled in favor of the state and prior to that it was 1976 the last time the supreme court ruled on this issue. there it was a california law and the supreme court in that case, too, said the states do have the authority to take these steps

federal fight lines call for 15 to 2 months. the judge in his case has sentenced other athletes in similar cases to home confinement and no jail time. >>> federal investigators say pg&e is largely at fault for that deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno. the ntsb says power outage caused the pipeline to surge beyond capacity and explode last year. investigators are now blaming pg&e for faulty welds and inadequate management and procedures. >> it was compounded over the years by a litany of failures including poor recordkeeping, inadequate inspection programs, and an integrity management program without integrity. >> the pipeline was installed back in 1956, had no automatic or remote control valves to shut it off. pg&e says it has made several changes though including reduction of pressures on gas pipeline but for many that live in san bruno that's just not enough. >> hang 'em. take them up to placerville. it used to be called hangtown. you know? they used to do that in the old days. too bad they can't do it now. >> the ntsb also

there are more federal contractors then there are federal employees. it depends on what you look at. simpson-bowles, the gang of six, or the limited information out there. summer calling for a 10% reduction or 300,000 less federal employees. host: is there room for reductions in the federal work force? the office of personnel management put together -- these are the numbers from them, that the turnover has been minimal at federal agencies bank zero people laid off or fired at the fcc. nuclear regulatory commission, two. national labor relations board, one. nasa, 13. the numbers go on and on. this is from a "usa today" article. the federal government runs the place to work for those avoiding losing a job. san francisco state university management professor at john sullivan says the low departure rates show a failure to release poor performance and those with obsolete skills. rather than indicating something positive, rates below 1% would indicate a serious management problem. guest: that is a lot to chew on. first of all, i do not think it is a bad thin

there are more federal contractors then there are federal employees. it depends on what you look at. simpson-bowles, the gang of six, or the limited information out there. summer calling for a 10% reduction or 300,000 less federal employe. host: is there room for reductions in the federal work force? the office of personnel management put together -- these are the numbers from them, that the turnover has been minimal at federal agencies bank zero people laid off or fired at the fcc. nuclear regulatory commission, two. national labor relations board, one. nasa, 13. the numbers go on and on. this is from a "usa today" article. the federal government runs the place to work for those avoiding losing a job. san francisco state university management professor at john sullivan says the low departure rates show a failure to release poor performance and those with obsolete skills. rather than indicating something positive, rates below 1% would indicate a serious management problem. guest: that is a lot to chew on. first of all, i do not think it is a bad thing

some of the agencies are worried about federal money because it does touch locally controlled federal money, too. we recommended watch, and will be working with the senate appropriations committee to tighten up the applicability. there are two bills. i tried to report on them each time i am here. the first is s.b. 223. this is the vlf catch-up bill. it has been amended to scope itself down to apply only to the city and county of san francisco, so the availability up to the full prior to% is limited only to you, if the bill is signed. going forward, it

the federal government's only helped us with 25 of them. that's inappropriate. >> perry failed to mention he only asked for federal money 25 times prior and in each of those cases fema said yes. and now south carolina governor nikki haley faces her own test. she tried today to keep the tea party tone intact with this warning of residents facing the wrath of hurricane irene. >> when an event like this happens, don't wait for government to come and take care of the situation, do what you're doing what we need to do to keep our families safe. >> joining me now, michael linden. michael, thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> all right, i'm going to put you in a totally unfair position, i'm going to make you defend the premise for my segment. to play devil's advocate, you could say look, they are governors of states, the money is already appropriated for this federal money pot, and these disasters are disruptive events that come from outside, not budgeted for, good for them for getting their share of the money. what is wrong with that

i will not talk about the federal level. i will not at the regional level, preparing for the next round of funding, once it becomes available. one of our staff had been working on the lifeline transportation program. this task force had been comprised of agencies, advocates, and those benefiting from this program, which is targeted at low income persons and communities. one of the more challenging programs to the minister because the goals have not matched with the eligibility requirements. we are pleased to see that mtc is listening. many of the recommendations we see coming out of the draft report should get more attention. making sure transit and non- transit programs are eligible. we see a lot of requests for pedestrian improvements. we want to make sure we have flexible funding. we have a number of efforts related to year end closing. on prop k funds, we allocated $80 million. based on the 2009 strategic plan and the 5ypp, 73% of the money that we could have allocated. $74 million of this is from programmatic categories

what we do and the federal government, we incentivize a lot of federal agencies to lease. the incentives are to lease. with the way that we call it, if you want to buy a building or something like that up front, it may not make sense long-term. we incentivize with the way we score that expansion in the first year as opposed to leasing which could be scored for 10, 20, 30 years or even more. one of the things i hope that comes out of this today aren't good discussions on how we change those discussions, we need to meet better needs to fiscal constraints of our country. i look forward to the string from a witness, we both do. share with the sure thoughts with the way to generate significant and lasting savings to the public. and with that unhappy given over to senator scott brown from massachusetts. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to our witnesses. i would venture to guess where the only hearing in d.c. right now. and it's interesting listening to mr. chairman, and i want to thank you for this important hearing, through a lot of our efforts, your efforts, we been able

not by having more federal agents with guns. you need a firm understanding and a conviction on how the second amendment works to protect you in a physical manner. [applause] a lot of people are discouraged and die at discouraging news for you, generally. but there is a lot of good news out there. a lot of people are paying attention to what this country is all about. what made us great, what made us a prosperous? by taxation is wrong. people are thinking about it. the young people are talking about this and very interested. understanding why we should not have a federal reserve system and why the constitution is so important. that is where i get my encouragement. i believe that people are thinking this way because now it is down to only 17% that believe our federal government is acting within the confines of what they're permitted to do. the very large majority are disgusted with it and they are looking for answers. we tested them for a couple of hundred years. for the last 80 years, we have allowed it to slip. we have lost our

it's another federal agency. as i understand it, is paying a high rate. >> so you guys are paying basically a half a billion dollars and in your subletting its -- >> we are not subletting it. we been completed released on two-thirds of the space. >> okay. so that entity is now paying the landlord a higher rent? it has nothing to do with you. so another federal agency is now paying a higher rent and you are ultimately paying, is that right? >> that's my understanding, yes or. >> have you been working with those other agencies if it's a high-risk? >> we have not. as i mentioned, for large leases we have a number of controls in place and particularly for the district of columbia and the national capital region. we actually have rent caps that we put in place for all of our leasing actions to ensure that we did a good deal and we stay at or below the market. >> so let me just make sure i understand this. so you entered into a lease, i understand all the background. you've been released on two-thirds of that. and now

reserve and between congress now we even see presidential candidates bringing in the federal reserve with kerry talking about how the treasonous to print more money and so suddenly he is like a player in the twenty twelve presidential race or part of me does think that it's important to have the federal reserve being discussed in a political sense because the strength of the dollar the purchasing power of the dollar is immensely important when it comes to our recovery so we should have presidential candidates actually talking about what federal reserve policy should be in some sense but what they should be talking about is why the federal reserve has as much power as it does in the first place and why it should be allowed to manipulate the system as much as it does and whether or not the dual mandate is even effective which it isn't which we should be talking about monetary policy but not in how much power should we give. what should and if you do but how much power should the federal reserve have over pretty good decisions what should monetary policy be in general that's an importan

the federal government is an enormous presence in terms of federal employees, military, retirees, and in terms of dollars. one of the county's i represent, fairfax county, i believe it is the number one believe it is the number one county in terms of federal contract dollars every year. prince william county is not far behind. anything that affects federal spending and federal activity obviously has a disproportionate impact on the economy of virginia. we have benefited from the federal government and we will not be ineffective if we shrink deck government. host: this is coming in from emanuel cleaver. guest: i respectfully disagree. i understand that in the heat of the moment, the disappointment that we cannot get everything that we wanted. but the reality, the political reality is that we lost the majority last november, substantially. we have to deal with the hand that we got. i think we played it as well as can be expected. there are actually some protections from the democratic point of view that did not exist in previous proposals. the bipartisan commission is split in does not

some of the agencies are worried about federal money because it does touch locally controlled federal money, too. we recommended watch, and will be working with the senate appropriations committee to tighten up the applicability. there are two bills. i tried to report on them each time i am here. the first is s.b. 223. this is the vlf catch-up bill. it has been amended to scope itself down to apply only to the city and county of san francisco, so the availability up to the full prior to% is limited only to you, if the bill is signed. going forward, it requires a 2/3 vote of the board, the legislative body, and a majority vote of the people. i think he has format did it in a way to do two things -- one to meet the governors need to have a vote of the people on taxes, and second, to avoid having an overwhelming opposition. i know automobile manufacturers and some other tax groups have been opposed to it because a state wide applicability. supervisor mar: mr. watson, looks like it takes a 2/3 of the county transportation authority members and a majority vote of the ballot. >> the general

my question is the federal register. the lead question today was that the federal register passed a regulation that will greatly affect only the state of texas power plants and the number of bills that have made it through the house and senate is not at an all-time high, national forests are being laid down by the administration's regulators. is there any way that we can review or muzzle? we should place the federal register in a state of review that would end of january 2013 until such time. right now, the federal register is the tool in which the administration is enacting their agenda. >> the point that scott is driving home is that in the federal register, we see all of the new rules and regulations getting moved out of washington at a level we have never seen in our lifetime. there are regulations dealing with obamacare, creating 159 new federal agencies and bureaucracies. we have 400 new rulings dealing with dodd =frank. whenever washington says we are creating a new bureaucracy to watch after your pocket book it,

there isn't there's a big difference between a different federal reserve. and if you look at alan greenspan he clearly caused the housing bubble by inflating the economy by keeping rates artificially low and i don't think that central bank has ever done a lot of gods since the inception of the federal reserve as a matter of fact in the united states or clearly a lot of the blame. should be going for them on the other end zone now or as we are already seeing this very high debt go out and clearly there needs to be some other political solution because i don't think there's any is a greater fix that as i mentioned apart from some form of debt restructuring but one point that was made earlier i do want to comment on also though is that the european central bank is any better and then the federal reserve in my opinion clearly that's not. the moment ruining their eurozone but bailing out every eurozone country they can find in every bank left and right as they're desperate again records are not of italian debt spanish debt italy is sitting on two trillion euros

federal bomb teams arrived the next morning led by the fda. milton brady was in charge. >> the first thing i saw was a 10 by 10 hole in the ground where it blew up where it would come out e ground. i said well that's not too bad. and they said come closer, i looked six floors down and about 200 feet wide and said, oh my gosh. >> the explosion that ripped through six levels of the basement parking garage and weakened the steel supports of the number one trade tower. >> you can see where the floor blew apart. all the way across. the walls are gone. >> no one has ever done something that compact. >> were more bombs waiting to explode at the center? investigators did not know. but they knew where the explosion came from. >> it stuck out that the explosion came from a vehicle. >> reporter: authorities had to inspect dozens of vehicles. these investigators would locate key evidence which led to suspects who were arrested less than a week after the attack. >> the day he arrived, rainy looked crater aáepb he made a -- and he made a quick decision. >>

putting an end to all federal tax replacing it with one federal consumption tax as the name implies it's fair it would for those making more money they would pay more money and it would promote savings all right next we like to give you a chance to contrast your record as governor that out of mitt romney you know there's a critical issue which is how big is the government to be back in the days of john f. kennedy the federal government took up along with the state local governments twenty seven percent of the economy the big government consumes thirty seven percent of the economy we were inches away from no longer having a free economy. i am my classical liberal i believe that less government is better government i always maintained as governor of new mexico that i could have cut state government by a third and that no one would have noticed the difference well i wasn't a dictator i was one of three branches of government and in that context i vetoed seven hundred fifty bills as you pointed out earlier i had thousands of line items i think and the whole notion of less government i think

the counterfeiters are all the federal reserve. [applause] i would like to legalize your constitutional right to use gold and silver as money. if you like the paper money, keep using it. if you think that you should use honest money, use gold and silver. you can do that for education as well. we have a monstrosity of a bureaucracy controlling education at the federal level. hiring thousands of bureaucrats and millions of dollars. we always have to argue the case for opting out. that means we should never allow government to encroach upon your rights to do home schooling and private schooling. [applause] in medicine, yes, i would like to opt out of obama-care. i would like to get rid of the obama-care. you ought to be able to opt out of the whole system. why don't we put our money in and pay our own bills and get our tax deduction and by a major medical policy and what the government stay out of our lives? [applause] i would like to see the day it when the government stays out of relies and out of our wallets. we would all be better

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the continued bloodshed much needed a warning for president obama to rethink his strategy there and federal reserve chairman ben bernanke says that his hands are tied when it comes to fixing the unemployment crisis while he's calling on congress to pick up the slack and what that means for those americans who are struggling to pay the bills. are all you need to know this there is still one more day remaining in august but already it has proven to be the deadliest month in the in the decade long war in afghanistan now a record sixty six u.s. soldiers were killed in august with the lion's share of that number of greeley number a result of that you know helicopter crash that claimed thirty american lives most of them leave navy seals on august sixth now according to the associated press at least one thousand six hundred forty members of the u.s. military have to guide since the war in afghanistan began now it does seem unfortunately like no one's even the top on the number of afghan civilian casualties not to mention the tens of thousands of americans who came home with physical as well as emo

oberstar: the federal government has let down municipalities. the first investment under the '72 clean water act was to deal with the biggest waste streams. and after a period of six or seven years, to then go to municipalities under 250,000 population. but that was just about the time when the federal government converted to a loan program. so smaller-sized communities have had to deal with repayable loans. a larger cost on a smaller tax base, and, arguably, less affluent communities. man: sewickley township is a rural farming community, however, herminie itself would be considered to be the downtown area of the township. it's the agways, the auto-parts store, the bank. it's your typical small-town village. man: people think that rural areas are pristine and perfect and everybody has a nice, simple life. that's, uh, not exactly the situation here. when you come into town in the summer, you know you're coming to herminie. woman: the aroma in 90-degree days... can sometimes just want to knock you over. woman: we have water. we have power, we have

. >> reporter: for a while it was a federally support of green- tech darling that even the president of the united states visited. but so so the stress cracks started to show last year when they started to scale back production. >> tremendous -- solyndra has tremendous gross prospects. >> i think i just have to move on, you know, next chapter. >> something maybe in a different field. i really learned a lot. >> lass december, uc berkeley commits was -- >> this is part of a shakeout we've been anticipating for a while. that's been a huge amount of investment, and also in other parts of the world particularly in china. there's probably more capacity right now thanked market can really absorb. >>> one good note a chip manufacturer from down the road told ktvu today it can put hundreds of solyndra workers right back to work right away, but not all. back to you. >> thank you, tom. >>> the red cross is helping four families this morning. the fire was reported just after 7:00 a.m. at a complex on portofino court. this is video of the smoky fire. no one was hurt but some pilot say they woke u

the obvious way to do that is with federal stimulus. president obama went a little bit of the way, the stimulus package was $300 billion a year. that's not enough to replace $1.4 trillion, and that's ended now. so you could go the route of a much bigger stimulus, but if we can't go that way, this might be a politically viable route, some republicans like this, work sharing, let's divide up the work that we have and keep people employed. instead of having firms layoff ten people, have 50 people work 20% fewer hours, incredibly successful in germany, their unemployment is lower today than the start of the down turn even though their growth has been no better than the united states. so there are ways to do it but it requires thinking a little differently. >> so you've offered two different options, a really big stimulus or smaller, more modest plan on job sharing. what do you think the president should do, go big or something more modest republicans might be onboard to do? >> well, i'll tell you, i like the big thing, because i hate to see

will eventually raise borrowing costs for the federal government, many companies and consumers. against that backdrop, it's understandable investors are seeking safety. but it may surprise you they're finding it in u.s. treasuries, despite the credit downgrade. interest rate strategist eric van nostrand says investors don't see a meaningful increase in the risk of default. >> this downgrade was very likely priced in for a long time by investors. the timing may have been a little bit surprising, but we knew that, given the rancor of the political debate over the sovereign debt issues, there was very likely to be a downgrade by either s&p or moody's. >> reporter: but treasuries were not the only safe haven. gold topped $17,000 an ounce for the first time and j.p. morgan is predicting it could hit $2,500 by year end. precious metals expert william rhind also expects the rally to continue because investors view it as the safest of assets. it doesn't have any counter- party risk. so, unlike a currency, unlike a bond, nobody issues gold. so, therefore, there's no risk of a default in

location in realignment of the federal foot print. so we think as we go forward if someone does become codified, there's a very good possibility that it could be factored towards helping reduce the governments releasing an costly leases. >> i remember when he said it takes about 1.66 billion annually to operate and basically keep hoping for the underutilized buildings and i found that really fascinating. they were back to the office, talked about it. as a result we try to come up with ways to address and get properties out the door and get them back into tax rules on the link. one of my goals in my legislation is to address. how could we unlock savings for taxpayers? >> as you allude to it in your statement, the key thing for the federal government is to get out from under the sink but not really very useful for the government. as you noted, operations of neatness cause keep recurring year after year after year. as we move forward in cipra does become law, hopefully this will lead toward the governments ability to get out from under l

was purely discretionary that is money that could be printed up by the central bank in our case the federal reserve just at infinitum so that is exactly what's happened and that's what richard nixon intended he wanted a lot of inflation to reelect him so i thought it would be good you want to disguise that inflation by putting prices which controls are what he did was he's been he's brought about the death of the dollar we should all remember nixon for the un but you did a lot of evil things in his life richard nixon but you're right this is probably his most long lasting terrible thing you did and we're now suffering from it and we're go whole world is suffering from it because all the other countries that are allied with the us went on a similar paper money stance with no or even switzerland with no restriction on the central bank brought as you would exactly as you say booms and busts and it generally clyne in by the way the standard of living of the average american and the lower today lower right if i could just ask what art would you say is the the biggest example of how this causes a

if the president declares a federal emergency, federal money comes in. right now, federal money is quite low. joplin, missouri was hit by a tornado. they are going to stand back and not give them the resources that they need to the state of missouri to help with hurricane irene. this is the hidden underbelly of the problem. there is no money to help people get back on their feet. the president needs to declare an emergency disaster. those are the two buzzwords. that entitles states and localities to different types of resources from the government. we have had, in the last few years, wildfires, tornadoes, earthquakes. we just had an earthquake just before irene. every time that happens, the governor of the state makes a plea to the federal government, this is an emergency that goes beyond our resources and we need help. historically, the federal government has stepped up to back up these local jurisdictions. right now, because of the recession, localities and states did not have enough revenues, and now we find out that the federal government does not ha

s in two thousand and ten than they did to federal the federal government in taxes how our c.e.o. is being paid so much more at a time when the economy is this bad. because that actually goes goes back to or earlier government intervention that protected management from stockholders and made it so difficult for so called you know for people to buy up the stock and take over a company in tough bad management that's very very difficult these days because of the big the big companies in the government come together to prevent it so if one of the results of this is all management of these big companies is paid too much the c.e.o.'s are paying too much way out of way out of the market category what we want to do is make it possible for the michael milken's of the world to have so-called hostile takeovers that is pay stockholders the price they want to pay they want to get for their stock take over the companies toss out the old line management put new and we would hope that are management and and especially not have these rip off salaries for these c.e.o.'s who are going to part of the

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well federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he spoke an annual conference in jackson hole today where last year he announced the fed's indications are it would later become q e two but the day he announced pretty much nothing he continued on the line but although i don't claim it is going to be an issue he doesn't expect the long term growth potential of the u.s. economy to be affected by the crisis or the recession if the right steps are taken he once again said the pad will take any necessary steps to help the economy but he didn't mention any and he once again point the finger at congress and the white house basically saying that better fiscal decisions need to be made for the monetary policy decisions to live within the hour so what's the takeaway here and what are the chances that those right steps ever be taken to get this economy back on track or discuss this with me as anthony read as the director of economic research for the reason. dan thanks so much for being here tonight so what did you think of burning these riveting speech today i feel like anybody kind of gets that that

now tonight we're going to take a look at federal reserve chairman ben bernanke these statements today or lack thereof but also look at a secret program asking a foreign governments to detain interrogate and beats american citizens and a.f.l.-cio president richard trumka has come out hard attacking president obama running to withdraw his support from his campaign in two thousand and twelve so how damaging could that actually be for the president's attempts at reelection or to have all that and more for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to me. all right so i've been giving you my take on the natural disaster reporting over the past couple of days and hopefully have made it pretty clear so far that i'm not a huge fan it's not that i don't believe that people should be able to watch the news and see what's coming take the necessary precautions find out which areas are being evacuated where the shelters are find out if nine one one is going to be working or not quite the opposite i think that that is the exact in

not federal dollars, taxpayer dollars, all right? there is a debate taxpayer money when it has abortion resume a while long, and you say? >> i think when i look down there this is fine no overreaching here, the injunction should not have been granted. what it basically did is the state came in and passed a law we are going to prioritize where our money goes. we all know that money is not coming down the way it did before. >> you say this is another federal intrusion on a state's right? >> yes. but i think that kansas is going to have a problem. because when i actually read the judge's opinion and i read the papers today here is what he did was a mistake. gives money to low income families to go to support family planning it says it can go to any public organization or non-private entity. kansas said prioritize. great. actually have the right to do that very specific in saying that after the public institution is going to go to hospitals and the federally -- federal health organization which knocks planned patient hood out. which now

. >> many people are waiting to hear from the federal reserve this morning on what it will do to stop the country from sliding back into recession. the feds policy meeting is today coming up at 6:15 we will have a live report from our washington d.c. newsroom with the steps the feds are going to take in order to boost confidence so stay with us throughout the day. any time of day you can go to www.ktvu.com for the latest economic news. there are also tools to monitor the markets, just look for the wall street tab www.ktvu.com. >>> oakland police are continuing a manhunt for the gunman who killed a three-year- old boy. jade hernandez is joining us live near the police command post near the scene of that tragic shooting, jade? >> reporter: still no arrests this morning and they plan to hold a vigil, it will be held a block from where this command post is parked at 56th and international. the police department calls it a tactical alert this morning and a family is reeling from the loss of their child. >> the violence takes place where you have an innocent child lost and you don't know ho

and if federal government is not doing its job, it's the job of the people to change the federal government which would mean vote the president out of office. not a practical thing to do, not an easy thing to do. we generally only do it once every four years or once every eight years. but judges don't like to see what we call jurisdiction shift, that is jurisdiction from the federal government changed to the state government. jon: but, again, i come back to the argument that these states are making which is if the federal government isn't going to enforce the law, who's supposed to? >> the federal government is not enforcing the law, and one can certainly understand the frustration of the states. but the courts will basically say we can't change what the constitution has said which is that the federal government is in charge of immigration. get yourself a president who's willing to enforce the federal law. jon: so you think this will be upheld? >> i do, i think that it will be interfered with. i think the federal courts will do the same thing to the alabama law they did to the arizona law,

caller: i'm wondering how many people want less government and its allies and don't want the federal government to be funded are going to be going for her -- for hurricane relief when this is all said and done. i want to thank obama for the work he is doing try to get us out of this right wing dark age we are in. host: "ron paul blasts fema. what do you think, sue? democratic caller in milwaukee. caller: i guess i am a little upset, because hurricane graded down to a one. all i saw on tv all weekend was coverage of this hurricane. what we have a flooding in the midwest, nobody covered it morning, noon and night. that was a very serious time a couple of years ago. i am thinking, maybe i need to live in the northeast and, of course, new york, because that seems to be the only city that got this may are out there. i guess i was a little upset with it. i feel bad for the people, and i know they are having a hard time, but come on. even when they have an earthquake in california it is not covered like this. i know that obama is trying to do his job, but it was a little overkill, i thought

we need to empower doctors and patients and change the federal tax code. the federal government got us into this mess when price controls were in. employers got a tax benefit and employees get health care with after-tax dollars. if you lose your job you have to buy it with after-tax dollars and we need to change that so that we can build up the individual markets. states need medical malpractice reform. texas is a great example. they had 16,000 doctors go back into texas capping on economic damages and punitive damages. the cost of medical malpractice has gone down. rick perry signed a couple weeks ago a loser paid law in texas which is a fabulous decision because defensive medicine costs $212 billion a year according to price waterhouse coopers. it is very expensive and leads -- part of the reason for the high cost of health care. states need to reduce the individual mandate that adds 20% to 50% to the cost of a premium. if i want the health insurance program with in vitro fertilization i should be able to buy it but why should jenkins to turner subsidize

but the federal debt crisis makes that less likely. >> we'll have to look at the federal government interests, coming due in september. it could be more than 300 million that the state owes the federal government just in interest. >> officials say efforts to increase the amount employers pay into the system or reduce benefits has so far been unsuccessful. >>> and we have just received word that pg&e capped a natural gas leak in nevada that kept nearby residents in their homes for a time today. the residents say there was a gas line pulled away from the main on indian valley road near hill road. service was cut off to one home. people who live in six nearby homes were told to stay inside as a precaution. >> they're bringing in a digging crew to identify the location of the main, once they identify that location they will shut it down. >> that just happened at about 5:25. crews will now work to restore service to the one home that was affected. >>> and oakland police releasing very few details tonight as they continue to search for the people who shot and killed a toddler. ktvu has more from oa

it without federal funding. these governors ought to be accepting funding and put ideology aside. i'd like to, ron, focus on a comment governor perry said in his announcement speech when he was announcing his candidacy. he said, i promise you, i will do everything in my power, every day, to make the federal government as inconsequential in your lives as possible. >> yeah. go ahead -- that sounds nice on a sunny day. >> absolutely. >> but -- >> i have a question for governor perry. if he were the governor of virginia and a small business owner saw his factory ripped asunder and the only way we could come close giving him the money to build it back up would be federal funds, do you they small business owner wants the federal government to be as inconsequential in his life as possible? no way. >> you've got to wonder. >> no way. >> yeah. governor o'malley, i'll call you governor o'malley because you're still governor. eric cantor, republican, majority leader, his office released a statement saying the majority lead

we need to downsize the federal government. if i had my way, tattoos and 20-inch rims would also be banned by people receiving government assistance. ab writes, the federal government should give free limited cell phone service to poor people especially the elderly poor for emergency and safety purposes. jordan writes on facebook, is this a joke? cell phones aren't a necessity to survive. if you can't afford one, you don't need one. jack in pennsylvania, great, another hand-out the working class has to pay for to help people who won't look to better themselves so they can pay for their own goodies. ralph writes, no. give them a job instead. terry writes from indiana, i'm a poor people. and i sure as hell don't want the government giving me a free cell known. we know anything the government gives you has strings attached. the first time i get a call from obama telling me how because of what he's done for the country i should re-elect him, i'll send the cell phone to the deepest part of my lake off my rear dock. and mary in phila

franklin: we would love to have something like 75% federal money. we do get some federal aid and we are thankful, but on the other hand, we're paying for this primarily with new rates. we have increased our rates to among the highest in america. but not nearly as much as if we hadn't passed a one-cent sales tax dedicated to water and sewer infrastructure. hunter: that sales tax counts for about a third of the revenue of the department right now. franklin: we got 75% of the voters to agree to tax themselves so that their children and their children's children could have clean water because we're investing in it now. hunter: there were no alternatives. the infrastructure was in dire straits. a lot of people didn't want to believe it had to be done, but it had to be done. what came out of those lawsuits by the upper chattahoochee river keeper were two consent decrees, focused on overflows. the intent is, city of atlanta, you need to keep the flows in the pipe. narrator: with the help of the funding the city raised, atlanta has been implementing an asse

they have got to manage this process to really rethink the federal government. you can't cut the current systems. i would recommend strongly that everybody that is going to be involved in this look at strong america now and a guy named michael strong who has really helped develop a program, i mean michael george who has helped develop a program which is called lean six signature that. they think they can take $500 billion a year out of the federal government by just applying modern systems to it. we have got to go -- >> bill: that is obsolete model we have got to change across the board. we have to start with the tax code. got to get rid of this class warfare business and be realistic about raising revenue mr. speaker, always a pleasure. good luck on the page. thanks for dropping in tonight. directly ahead. new polls tell us interesting things about president obama and the republican field a raid against him. coming up, bernie goldberg on how the media is handling the

reserve. >> oh, the federal reserve, i'll take a pass on the federal reserve right at the moment to be real honest with you. i know there's a lot of talk and what have you about them. if this guy prints more money, between now and -- i don't know what you'd do to them in iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in texas. i mean, printing more money to play politics at this particular time in american history is almost treasonist in my opinion, because all it's going to be doing, all it's going to be doing. we already tried this. all it's going to be doing is devaluing the dollar in your pocket. >> all right. well, there are a lot of ways to unpack that. the first is that this is a built of ideological signaling in the farthest reaches of the right wing of the republican party, those who want us to return to the 19th century and gold standard. secondly, an interesting glimpse of what kind of rhetoric rick perry thinks republican voters wants to hear. tim pawlenty left early because he could never connect to the back lash rage that's animating the republican presidential primary.

federal courts and federal law tort reform, certainly. i hope there are members of the legislature that will come forward with that kind of program. state tort reform does not need to come from washington d.c. >> thank you for coming. we followed texas as a role model in many ways. the community-based program as an alternative to incarceration. one of the most efficient and effective programs that the program runs as capital punishment. can you foresee a point at which we decide it is just not worth it? >> i think that is a state-by- state issue. it is really interesting to have the conversations about all these different issues that people think that a constitutional amendment needs to be passed. if there are enough people in america that believes that capital punishment needs to be prohibited across the country, then that will happen. it. , then state-by-state, they will make that decision. in texas, they support by an overwhelming majority capital punishment. i just lay it out there as an issue for americans. state-by-state, if the wan