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disturbing images stir up controversy over the circumcision ban on san francisco's ballot. coming up next. >> belva: good evening. i'm belva davis. welcome to "this week in northern california." joining me on our panel tonight are rachel gordon, city hall reporter with the "san francisco chronicle." tom vacar, consumer editor with ktvu news. and thomas peele, investigative reporter for bay area news group on the chauncey bailey project. and carla marinucci, "san francisco chronicle," senior political editor. we're going to get to redistricting. which why is you're invited tonight. fi...

governor mitch daniels says he is not running and not making a run. caroline shively will s live in washington. how does his decision affect the race. >> reporter: it takes a serious candidate out of the running. he is a second term governor. now, the other candidates will pry trie to position as the go to person financially. even though he declined to run, he released a statement, in the next few years americans will decide two basic questions, who is in charge here so the public sector and private sector will dominate and directed -- >> he said he decided not to run because of fami...

gillebrand will be joining us in new york. rising star on capitol hill. >> leon panetta was on nbc last night and he made it very clear there's -- ok, as clear as he could make it considering there are political ramifications at play here. he says ultimately, the public will likely see the photo but there are politics involved. >> i don't think there was any question that ultimately, a photograph would be presented to the public. obviously, i've seen those photographs. we've analyzed them. and there's no question that it's bin laden. the bottom line is that, you know, we got bin lade...

Net, to the to break it, not to kill it. >> jay carney, the spokesman for the president, the press secretary said it ends medicare as we know it. is that your view, mr. cummings? >> yes, it is. and, you know, i listened to my colleague. to be very frank with you, i'm appalled. i think it is very unfortunate that while they are destroying medicare, they're giving tax breaks and subsidies to the oil companies and certainly giving tax breaks to millionaires on the backs of our seniors. come on, now. you give somebody a $15,000 voucher to buy health insurance, you know, chris, somebody who is 65 y...

I said, you want to repeal health care? go at it. we'll have that debate. you're not going to be able to do that by nickel and diming me in the budget. you think we're stupid? >> well, are you -- do you think the voters want to get rid of health care, mr. lungren? do they want to get rid of obama's health care bill that they fought for last year? >> they don't want to get rid of health care. they want to get rid of a program adopted last year that neither brings costs down nor makes it more accessible nor has a positive impact on our overall budget. no, i find people in my district and whereve...