Hard work really begins. What changes are in store for the bay area and what does it mean for those of us who live here . Medically and da jackson, associate professor of Political Science at san jose state is here with us. Melinda, thank you so much. Happy to be here, thanks. Lets start right here with the 17th congressional district. Mike honda, seventerm incumbent held on to his seat. Ro khanna tried to take it away from him. Lots of tech support. Did ro pick the wrong guy to go after, no rationale to get rid of honda . It is very hard to unseat an incumbent, especially a popular incumbent that has the partys support, as honda did. Yeah, there werent any real negatives for honda. Ros argument basically was look, hes been there a long time. Im younger. I have new ideas. Im nortech savvy. Im more in touch with the current leads of silicon valley. And ultimately, that wasnt enough to convince voters to kick honda out. But he did do well. So tech is playing a role in politics, right . The fact that it is so close is a wakeup call that tech is playing a larger role in politics. Theyre putting more money into it. They did back khannas campaign. Im sure that khanna will come back, either to run for the same seat or another one two years from now. Interesting. Lets talk about oakland. Libby schaaf, a field of 15 beat handily the mayor jean quan. Not unheard of for an kwumt to be beaten. But that badly . What was going on there . Voting played a role and having such a large field of 15 candidates. It makes it difficult for voters to sort through names and that many people. It was a bit of a surprise to see the result that came out as it did with such a large lead for libby schaaf. But i think that it was really only three or four candidates that were kind of compete 5 that top tier. Ultimately, she did win even without going to a third or fourth round. Do you see this as a referendum on quan . Yes. Definitely. Quan had a lot of criticism of her tenure as mayor, and i think that a lot of voters decided that they would like someone new in city hall. Here in san jose, brandnew mayor, sam liccardo. Also very close race. Very different from the oakland race. Is liccardo going to be an extension of the chuck reed years . Well, liccardo did support the pension reform, which is one of the main issues in this race. But liccardo is a different politician. He has been on the city council for eight years. Hes been representing the downtown district. Hes been very involved in the local issues. So i wouldnt say well just see more of the same. I think that liccardo will put his stamp on his time as mayor. Certainly Public Safety and physical stability i think will be two of the key things that he focuses on. Now, how about one of the most interesting, i think, elections was the sugary beverage tax. It won in berkley. It was on the ballot as well in san francisco. It needed 2 3. Did well. Got 54 . Couldnt reach 2 3. If im the ceo of pepsicola, im a little bit nervous right now. Whats your prediction for the future . Yes. I think we will see more communities trying to pass taxes on sugary beverages. Berkeley the first. Maybe not a surprise since its berkeley. But 30 other communities around the country have tried this already. And now with one win, i think theyll be encouraged to try again. And that 2 3 is a really high bar. So other communities seeking to pass these kind of taxes may want to try for the simple majority vote which is how it passed in berkeley. Thank you so much, melinda. I appreciate your insight. I hope youll come back. Thank you. My next guest worked for three president s with secretary of labor in the Clinton Administration and named by Time Magazine as one of the ten most effective secretaries of the 20th century. Robert reich has also written more than a dozen books, and he produced the film inequality for all. If thats not enough, he is now teaching a wildly popular class at cal. We sat down with him. Professor reich reflected on an economy that he says bullies certain americans and spoke about hillary in the white house. I think shed make a very good president. I think the question in my mind shes very bright. Shes courageous. She has what it takes in every respect. The only question in my mind is how close she is to wall street. I get nervous about that because any candidate that takes a lot of money from wall street, and they all do. It is hard to find one who doesnt, but when youre very close to wall street, you get sucked into this wall street frame of mine. And all of the protections and tax benefits and all of the financial selfcenteredness that wall street represents. So thats my only question mark. Its just a question mark. I dont know. It goes back to big money and politics. It goes right back to big money and politics. We are seeing more money coming from fewer and fewer people who are unknown. We see corporate money, but we dont know which corporations are involved. The supreme courts decision in Citizens United against the federal election commission, that 2010 decision, i think opened the floodgates to big money politics. It will prove to be one of the Worst Supreme Court decisions in history. Youve spoken for years and decades really on behalf of the voiceless, the disenfranchised workingmen and women of this country. Where did that come from . What was your inspiration . When i was a kid, i was always short for my age. I got beat up ortized. A lot of kids do. But i turned to some older boys for protection, kind of had my own little protection racket. One of the boys i turned to was a fellow i knew as mickey, named michael sworner. He was in the Civil Rights Era in 1964, registering voters in mississippi when the real bullies, the real bullies got to him. They tortured him and murdered him along with chaney and goodman. That was a turning point for me. Emotionally. I mean, i didnt intellectualize it. But looking back on it, i decide deep down that i would have to prevent people from being bullied by the forces in our society that are bullying forces. Not necessarily individuals, but the economy right now for reasons that we have already gone into. The economy is bullying people. What do you think is the single most important thing we can do today to diminish the income inequality that we see . This is not rocket science. If we simply raise taxes on the top to the same rates they were if the 1950, 60s and 70s, when we had more rapid growth than we had today, we would have enough money to do everything we need to do. How do you respond to your critics who say youre a socialist . I dont respond to anybody that uses terms like communist, socialist, fascist. This is meaningless dribble. The issue is what are we going to do to fix the problem . I am eager to debate anybody who thinks they have a better set of ideas. I read when you were an undergraduate young man there was a Hillary Rodham that was a young collegiate at wellesley you two went to the movies on a date. What the you share about that date with us . Well, its interesting. When she ran in 2008, i got a call from a reporter i think from the New York Times who asked me exactly the same question, because he had found a set of her letters from wellesley in which she mentioned the date apparently with me. And my First Response was i couldnt remember the date at all. And i thought that would be pretty awful if you cant remember the date. But it gradually came back to me. But then the reporter asked what do you remember about the date that might shed light on how she would function as president , and i thought that was the stupidest question i had ever been asked. So with my tongue in my cheek, i said well, she wanted an inordinate amount of butter on her popcorn. Then there was silence. I thought hes hung up. Are you still there . Yes, im just writing this down. You know . It did appear in the New York Times in one of the political gossip columns. I did remember it wasnt a date exactly. I was president of my sophomore class. She was president of her freshman class. We had a president ial summit. But ive known her for many years. Actually first day of yale law school, i introduced her to somebody i had attended graduate school at oxford with named bill clinton. I didnt know what i was doing, but i have watched the two of them very closely over the last i dont know how many years 40 years. I have always admired her. I admire both of them. But with that admiration, also goes some sort of, really . Politicians and some people would say im a politician, but im really not. Politicians are different kinds of people. They have a capacity to love politics and they are not just gregarious. They are so unbelievably able to make connections, or at least make people feel like they make connections, i dont know if they do. It is almost superhuman. I dont know how they do it. In case youre wondering, professor reich has 800 plus students in his Public Policy class and hundred morse on the wait list. His latest book is called after shock. Just finished another as yet unnamed project due out next fall. Still to come on the mix youre making me blush right now. Thats very nice of you. A great relationship between coach and gm and a great start to the season. Well sit down with the two master minds of the 2014 warriors next. No one knows how the season will end, but as of now, despite two recent losses, the warriors are off to their best start in more than 20 years. Credit can go to their new highly sought after coach steve kerr and the man who landed him, bob myers. We sat down with the dynamic duo and got a chance to see their mutual admiration firsthand. For us to get a guy like steve who has won five championships to touch our players, which is our most important asset was really key for us. And then steve as a person, just the authenticity that he brings to the job, all qualities that we want within our organization. Were just thrilled that we got him. You know, youre making me blush right now, bob. Thats very nice of you. Ill tell you the truth when the cameras stop. Exactly. What is the biggest difference do you think between the steve kerr coached warriors and the mark jackson coached warriors . Hopefully, not too much of a difference because the team was already good when i arrived here. Im just trying to build on whats already been established the last couple of years. This is a franchise for almost two decades that was really down. The last couple of years have been terrific. Were just trying to take the next step. What do you think is going to be the most challenging part of coaching in the nba . Right now, sleeping. As a broadcaster, you get a little older. You wake up in the middle of the night. Youre up for a couple minutes and go right back to sleep. Right now it is like 3 00, wake up, try to go back to sleep, what if we run this play tomorrow night, what if we do that. Next thing you know its breakfast time and youve been up for four hours. Theres a lot of brain activity which is great and fun but theres stress too. When we hit our adversity, which is inevitable in this league, itll test me. I think well be prepared as an organization. I wish for steve he could sleep better. But you want a coach that is that engaged, right . The hardest thing is how do you find a balance because his job i know as a coach and my job as a gm, the off switch its not something you punch in and out for on the clock. The hardest thing to do is to take yourself away from the team. If youre a competitive person and diligent and hardworking, your nature is to be up at 3 00 in the morning, or 4 00 in the morning thinking what if i had done this a little differently, or maybe i should do this in the future. I think the positive of that is if there is one, waking up at 3 00 in the morning, i trust steves process that he cares, right . Whatever happens with this team and this roster and this organization, you have somebody leading the team that cares as much as you do about it. We took a trip. We were in l. A. Driving to ontario to go to a preseason game. I was on the bus with steve. He probably doesnt notice this. Im sitting in one aisle. Hes sitting in the other. Its about one hour, 15 minute drive. He has his white board in front of him drawing up plays. It is like watching your kids do their homework without asking. I just leave him alone. Thats what you like to see. The only reason i did it is because i knew you were watching. I was faking it. Oh, i got to pretend like i am working here. He was probably doing tic tac toe by himself. Youre a lifelong warriors fan. I hear you carry around the first tickets to the first game you ever went to, to the warriors game when you were 6 years old. Im going to see that later. Yeah. Obviously, that would help you as a general manager. But in some ways do you think its a liability . Youre just too passionate, too close, too emotional about this team . Steve knows as a general manager, you is a feeling of helplessness. You put the roster together. You do the best you can, and then you hand it off to the Coaching Staff and then you cant do much else. I mean, there is a trading deadline there is different decisions you make. But ultimately watching games can be excruciating because you feel helpless. You cant really impact the game. But you have to be there to watch. Sometimes you want to run away and go see a movie or get in a car and drive off a cliff. I remember my first game in phoenix. I got all dressed. It is opening night. I get to the arena at 5 00 for a 7 00 game. Its okay, now what i do . You have no role on game night, so its a weird youre right. Its a helpless feeling. But when things click and you have strong relationships and everybody is kind of pulling in the same direction, then it is fun on a daily basis because everybody is on board and theres a kind of magic thats created out of that. Coach kerrs life may seem storybook. But it wasnt always that way. As a college freshman, tragedy rocked his world and shaped the man he is today. Well, obviously, thats the most difficult thing i have ever gone through or probably ever will. When a terrorist attack in beirut robbed him of his father, a young steve kerr grieved the only way he knew how, on the court. That part of the story is just ahead. At the moment, life looks pretty darn good for warriors coach steve kerr. But before he had nba victories to celebrate, coach kerr had an incredible loss to process. In the fall of 1983, while a freshman player at the university of arizona, he got the call that no one expects. His father, the president of the American University of beirut had been assassinated by terrorists. No one would have blinked if this young man stepped away from the game for a while, but two days later kerr was back on the court, leading his team to an upset win over rival arizona state. For him, it was an escape from grief. A safe place to forget, if only for an hour. Well, you know, obviously, thats the most difficult thing ive ever gone through, or probably ever will, hopefully. What i learned was that basketball was more than just a sport for me. It was a release. It was a getaway, and ultimately it would become my lifes work. So that night i didnt even think about not playing. Not playing would have been a lot harder because i would have just been thinking about what happened. But to get out on the court was the best thing therapeutically. And i guess it just taught me that, man, if you love the game this much and you can immerse yourself in it and enjoy the relationships with your teammates and coaches, might as well stick with it. So that was sort of the beginning of my basketball career. And i feel really unbelievably blessed to still be working in basketball all these years later. Bob, one of your former kleins, Antoine Jamison said this about you. Bob knows the game and can communicate with players like no other person ive ever been around. And others have echoed that sentiment as well. Why is that . Gosh. Thats a big compliment. Well, its funny. Antoine was one of my first clients. Got to know him really well. Sometimes you just really just connect with some clients. He was one of them. He was in my wedding, came to my wedding. I think honesty sometimes gets lost in the nba. People are afraid to say things that may be difficult to process. Steve knows this as a player. It is hard to tell a player youre only going to play ten minutes tonight. A lot of coaches and general managers try to work around that where i think the most effective thing to do is to hit things straight on, even if somebody doesnt want the hear it. A lot of players would think, im worth 10 million. Youre not. Youre worth 5 million. They dont want to hear that. You can say to them, do you want to hear the truth or do you want me to tell you what you want to hear . I try to give the truth and then you can develop much stronger relationships with your clients. Or anybody in life for that matter. We hear about bad behavior from professional athletes. Do you two feel like you have a role to play in helping to shape the lives of some of these young men off the court . We are all in the limelight in this business, so from players to coaches to management, we have to set a good example. I know when i was a kid i was so into sports. I had my favorite players. Theres a responsibility that goes with that. But fortunately, as bob mentioned, we have really high character players. We have good people throughout this organization. And i think what you talked about, sort of setting a standard and establishing a good sort of ability to be a role model, i think that comes pretty naturally for our players. And its fantastic. Steve, you and your wife margo just made a Million Dollar donation to the university of arizona. Youre a fivetime nba champion. Youre the head coach of the warriors. Did you ever imagine any of this . No, no. Thatll make you blush. I think about that almost every day. For this whole sequence of events to happen in my life, i didnt even have a scholarship offer coming in from high school. I got one at the very last second at arizona, which is why i feel so strongly about the school because everything ive been able to live, the career and experiences, are a direct result of my experience at the u of a. I just im not sure how it all happened, but it did. My wife and i were very thankful to be in this opportunity, in this circumstance to be able to make a big contribution. I got to thank bob and joe for that too. They paid me. They paid me a lot of money so i was able to have the resources to do it. Basketball has just been an incredible experience for me throughout every stage and this is just the next step. Thats all for us today. Thanks so much for joining us on the mixment remember to follow us on facebook and twitter. In the meantime, be well. See you next time. Hi, everyone. Welcome to on the money. Stocks hit new highs. Oil plunges to new lows, but what to do if youre looking for income . Fords big bet on its bestselling vehicle. Our conversation with ceo mark fields. And it is the avon lady reima reimagined. The talk about money you need to have with ageing relatives, whether they want to or not. Heres a look at whats making ws