A decision on a controversial Arizona voter ID law was made on Monday.

The Supreme Court of the United States overturned Prop 200, which in Arizona required residents to show proof of U.S. citizenship if they wanted to register to vote.

In this edition of Reality Check, Sam Brock tells us what effect the court's ruling might have on contested voter ID laws all over the country. View his report in the video above.

Convicted former Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. would like to serve prison time ahead of his also-convicted spouse, Sandi Jackson, court filings show.

Paperwork also reveals that the former legislator is having difficulty paying the hefty fine levied against him by a federal judge.

Jackson pleaded guilty in February to misusing campaign funds. Jackson acknowledged in court that he spent $750,000 of campaign cash on personal items — like a $4,600 Michael Jackson fedora and a $1,500 black-and-red cashmere cape, according to the charges against him — and pleaded guilty to several charges, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud and false statements.

Sandi Jackson pleaded guilty on the same day to tax fraud.

Vice President Joe Biden surprised the breakfast crowd at a packed Hobee's restaurant in Sunnyale Saturday morning.

 The vice president spent about an hour talking to customers and enjoying some breakfast.

Hobee's customers had no advance warning that a VIP was going to stop by.

Biden worked the room, as only a seasoned politician can, making friends at nearly every table.

Chevaun Lee was among those who stepped up to meet the vice president. She got a kiss. Moments later, her young daughter was swept up in the vice president's arms for a family photo op. Biden, who was still holding the little girl, joked that the child told him her uncle calls him "Joey B."

"It’s amazing to meet him in person. It’s nice they take time to come to smaller places," Lee said.

Biden also visited the cooks behind the counter as he made his way to a table where he enjoyed some of Hobee's famous blueberry coffee cake with Rep. Mike Honda.

"I enjoyed the Bay Area. In fact I’m going to enjoy more of it. My niece is graduating from Stanford today and I’m heading over there right now. It’s going to be a good day," Biden said after leaving the restaurant.

His niece's graduation was the final stop of his two day trip which also included a bit of fundraising.

Biden held a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee at the home of Dawn Ross and Doug Hickey Friday night. According to the invitation for the event, tickets were running  between $500 and $10,000.

The vice president was scheduled to fly back to Washington, D.C. Saturday after the graduation.

Once he’s back in Washington, he is expected to make a push for stronger gun control at a White House event next Tuesday.

A judge on Friday delayed the sentencing of George Shirakawa Jr., the convicted and disgraced former Santa Clara County Supervisor president, saying a new charge that surfaced this week may violate his previous plea agreement.

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Philip Pennypacker continued Shirakawa's new court date to July 19.

Shirakawa was originally supposed to be sentenced to one year in county jail after he pleaded guilty in March to 12 counts of corruption and theft of public funds. 

Shirakawa, who is out of custody, did not speak Friday and has not spoken publicly since his arrest. His defense attorney asked that his case be dismissed.

MORE: The Complaint Against George Shirakawa Jr. (PDF)

But Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen on Wednesday charged Shirakawa with a completely new felony charge, impersonating the campaign of political adversary Magdalena Carrasco in 2010. That charge carries a maximum of three years in prison.

Shortly after he was charged - the first time - Shirakawa pleaded guilty to funneling $130,000 in campaign money in and out of his personal accounts over a five-year period, which mostly went to casinos in Las Vegas and Southern California. In a statement, Shirakawa apologized and stated he had a gambling addiction and suffered from depression.

Then, on Wednesday, Rosen detailed a politcal scam where he said Shirakawa impersonated Carrasco's campaign during a San Jose city council race. Rosen said Shirakawa - linked to a postage stamp on a campaign mailer with his DNA - defamed her in an illegal political hit piece depicting her standing with a North Vietnamese Communist flag. That flag is a huge offense to the Vietnamese who fled that regime and landed in San Jose.

At the time, Carrasco denied having anything to do with the mailer, and on Friday, she emailed a statement to NBC Bay Area stating: "East San Jose is not a Banana Republic. Our community deserves better than this and it is time to bring all those involved to justice."

At the news conference this week, Rosen said he would be asking Pennypacker to add more jail time to Shirakawa's sentence.

THE PRESIDENT:  Good morning, everybody.  It is wonderful to see all of you, and I want to thank everybody who is here.  I think there's only one problem, and that is that my remarks are not sitting here.  People!  (Laughter.)  By Friday afternoon, things get a little challenged. 

Q    Will you answer a question in the --

THE PRESIDENT:  I'm going to have a -- I'm going to answer a question at the end of the remarks, but I want to make sure that we get the remarks out.  People!  Oh, goodness.  (Laughter.)  Oh, somebody is tripping.  Folks are sweating back there right now.  (Laughter.) 

Well, good morning everybody.  This afternoon, I'm going to be in Southern California to meet with President Xi of China.  But before I leave Northern California, I wanted to take a minute to address something that’s happening with the Affordable Care Act in this state, and I wanted to meet with a group of people who are doing some very important work on behalf of California’s middle-class families.

These leaders from California’s government, the California Endowment, and major Spanish language media outlets have joined together to help implement the Affordable Care Act here in California and to educate folks about how to sign up and shop for quality, affordable plans.  And their efforts have already shown some excellent results in the biggest insurance market in the country.

There are two main things that Americans need to know when it comes to the Affordable Care Act and what it means for you.

First of all, if you’re one of the nearly 85 percent of Americans who already have insurance, either through Medicare or Medicaid or your employer, you don’t have to do a thing.  You’ve just got a wide array of new benefits, better protections and stronger cost controls that you didn’t have before, and that will, over time, improve the quality of the insurance that you've got; benefits like free preventive care -- checkups, flu shots, mammograms and contraception. 

You are now going to be able to get those things through your insurance where they previously were not -- didn’t have to be provided.  Protections like allowing people up to the age of 26 to stay on their parent's health care plans, which has already helped 6 million Americans, including [1 million] young Latino Americans.   

Cost controls like requiring insurance companies to spend at least 80 percent of the money that you pay in premiums in your actual health care costs, as opposed to administrative costs or CEO pay -- not overhead, but that money has to be spent on you.  And if they don’t meet that target, they actually have to reimburse you.  So in California, we’re already getting reports that insurers are giving rebates to consumers and small business owners to the tune of $45 million this year.  So already we're seeing millions of dollars of rebates sent back to consumers by insurance companies as a consequence of this law.

All of that is happening because of the Affordable Care Act.  All of this is in place right now, already, for 85 percent of Americans who have health insurance.  By the way, all of this is what the Republican Party has now voted 37 times to repeal, at least in the House of Representatives.  And my suggestion to them has been, let's stop refighting the old battles and start working with people like the leaders who are on stage here today to make this law work the way it’s supposed to.

We’re focused on moving forward and making sure that this law works for middle-class families.  And that brings me to the second thing that people need to know about the Affordable Care Act. 

If you’re one of nearly 6 million Californians or tens of millions of Americans who don’t currently have health insurance, you’ll soon be able to buy quality, affordable care just like everybody else. 

And here’s how.  States like California are setting up new, online marketplaces where, beginning on October 1st of this year, you can comparison shop an array of private health insurance plans side-by-side, just like you were going online to compare cars or airline tickets.  And that means insurance companies will actually have to compete with each other for your business.  And that means new choices.

See, right now, most states don’t have a lot of competition.  In nearly every state, more than half of all consumers are covered by only two insurers.  So there’s no incentive to provide you a lot of choices or to keep costs down.  The Affordable Care Act changes that. 

Beginning next year, once these marketplaces are open, most states will offer new private insurance choices that don’t exist today.  And based on early reports, about 9 in 10 Americans expected to enroll in these marketplaces live in states where they’ll be able to choose between five or more different insurers.  So for example, here in California, 33 insurers applied to join the marketplace.  Covered California then selected 13 based on access, quality, and affordability, four of which are brand new to your individual market.

So what’s happening is through the Affordable Care Act, we’re creating these marketplaces with more competition, more choice, and so the question is, what happens to cost?

Now, a lot of the opponents of the Affordable Care Act, they had all kinds of sky-is-falling, doom-and-gloom predictions that not only would the law fail, but what we’d also is costs would skyrocket for everybody.  Well, it turns out we’re actually seeing that in the states that have committed themselves to implementing this law correctly, we’re seeing some good news.  Competition and choice are pushing down costs in the individual market just like the law was designed to do.

The 13 insurance companies that were chosen by Covered California have unveiled premiums that were lower than anybody expected.  And those who can’t afford to buy private insurance will get help reducing their out-of-pocket premiums even further with the largest health care tax cut for working families and small businesses in our history.  So about 2.6 million Californians -- nearly half of whom are Latinos -- will qualify for tax credits that will, in some cases, lower their premiums a significant amount.

Now, none of this is a surprise.  This is the way that the law was designed to work.  But since everybody has been saying how it's not going to happen, I think it's important for us to recognize and acknowledge this is working the way it's supposed to.  We've seen similar good news, by the way, not just here in California but in Oregon and Washington.  In states that are working hard to implement this law properly, we're seeing it work for people -- for middle-class families, for consumers.

Now, that's not to say that everything is going to go perfectly right away.  When you're implementing a program this large, there will be some glitches.  There are going to be some hiccups.  But no matter what, every single consumer will be covered by the new benefits and protections under this law permanently. 

So the bottom line is you can listen to a bunch of political talk out there -- negative ads and fear mongering geared towards the next election -- or alternatively you can actually look at what’s happening in states like California right now.  And the fact of the matter is through these exchanges, not only are the 85 percent of people who already have health insurance getting better protections, and receiving rebates, and being able to keep their kids on their health insurance until they're 26, and getting free preventive care, but if you don't have health insurance and you're trying to get it through the individual market and it's too expensive or it's too restricted, you now have these marketplaces where they're going to offer you a better deal because of choice and competition.

And if even at those lower rates and better insurance that you're getting through these marketplaces you still can't afford it, you're going to be getting tax cuts and tax credits through the Affordable Care Act that will help you afford it.  And that's how we're going to make sure that millions of people who don't currently have health insurance or are getting a really bad deal on their health insurance are finally going to get it.  

But -- and here's my final point -- to take advantage of these marketplaces, folks are going to need to sign up.  So you can find out how to sign up at HealthCare.gov, or here in California you can sign up at CoveredCA.com.  Because quality care is not something that should be a privilege, it should be a right.  In the greatest country on Earth, we've got to make sure that every single person that needs health care can get it.  And we've got to make sure that we do it in the most efficient way possible. 

One last point I'm going to make on this, because there are a lot of people who currently get health insurance through their employers -- the 85 percent who are already out there -- and they may be saying, well, if this law is so great, why is it that my premium still went up?  Well, part of what's happening across the country is in some cases, for example, employers may be shifting more costs through higher premiums or higher deductibles or higher copays, and so there may still be folks who are out there feeling increased costs not because of the Affordable Care Act but because those costs are being passed on to workers or insurance companies, in some cases.  Even with these laws in place, they're still jacking up prices unnecessarily.

 So this doesn't solve the whole problem, but it moves us in the right direction.  It’s also the reason why we have to keep on implementing changes in how our health care system works to continually drive better efficiency, higher quality, lower cost.  We’re starting to do that.  Health care cost inflation has gone up at the lowest rate over the last three years that we’ve seen in many, many years.  So we’re making progress in actually reducing overall health care costs while improving quality, but we’re going to have to continue to push on that front as well.  That's also part of what we’re doing in the Affordable Care Act.

 But the main message I want for Californians and people all across the country -- starting on October 1st, if you’re in the individual market, you can get a better deal.  If you’re a small business that's providing health insurance to your employees, you can get a better deal through these exchanges.  You’ve got to sign up:  HealthCare.gov, or here in California at CoveredCA.com. 

All right?  So thank you very much.

Q    Mr. President?

THE PRESIDENT:  I’m going to take one question.  And then, remember, people are going to have opportunities to also -- answer questions when I’m with the Chinese President today.  So I don't want the whole day to just be a bleeding press conference.  But I’m going to take Jackie Calmes’ question.

Q    Mr. President, could you please react to the reports of secret government surveillance of phones and Internet?  And can you also assure Americans that the government -- your government doesn't have some massive secret database of all their personal online information and activities?

HE PRESIDENT:  Yes.  When I came into this office, I made two commitments that are more important than any commitment I made:  Number one, to keep the American people safe; and number two, to uphold the Constitution.  And that includes what I consider to be a constitutional right to privacy and an observance of civil liberties.

Now, the programs that have been discussed over the last couple days in the press are secret in the sense that they're classified.  But they're not secret in the sense that when it comes to telephone calls, every member of Congress has been briefed on this program.  With respect to all these programs, the relevant intelligence committees are fully briefed on these programs.  These are programs that have been authorized by broad bipartisan majorities repeatedly since 2006. 

And so, I think at the outset, it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed on exactly what we're doing.  Now, let me take the two issues separately. 

When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls.  That’s not what this program is about.  As was indicated, what the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers and durations of calls.  They are not looking at people's names, and they're not looking at content.  But by sifting through this so-called metadata, they may identify potential leads with respect to folks who might engage in terrorism.  If these folks -- if the intelligence community then actually wants to listen to a phone call, they've got to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation. 

So I want to be very clear -- some of the hype that we've been hearing over the last day or so -- nobody is listening to the content of people's phone calls.  This program, by the way, is fully overseen not just by Congress, but by the FISA Court -- a court specially put together to evaluate classified programs to make sure that the executive branch, or government generally, is not abusing them, and that it's being carried out consistent with the Constitution and rule of law.

And so, not only does that court authorize the initial gathering of data, but -- I want to repeat -- if anybody in government wanted to go further than just that top-line data and want to, for example, listen to Jackie Calmes' phone call, they would have to go back to a federal judge and indicate why, in fact, they were doing further probing. 

Now, with respect to the Internet and emails -- this does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States.  And again, in this instance, not only is Congress fully apprised of it, but what is also true is that the FISA Court has to authorize it. 

So in summary, what you've got is two programs that were originally authorized by Congress, have been repeatedly authorized by Congress, bipartisan majorities have approved on them, Congress is continually briefed on how these are conducted.  There are a whole range of safeguards involved, and federal judges are overseeing the entire program throughout.  We're also setting up -- we've also set up an audit process, when I came into office, to make sure that we're, after the fact, making absolutely certain that all the safeguards are being properly observed. 

Now, having said all that, you'll remember when I made that speech a couple of weeks ago about the need for us to shift out of a perpetual war mindset, I specifically said that one of the things that we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy?  Because there are some tradeoffs involved. 

I welcome this debate.  And I think it's healthy for our democracy.  I think it's a sign of maturity, because probably five years ago, six years ago, we might not have been having this debate.  And I think it's interesting that there are some folks on the left but also some folks on the right who are now worried about it who weren't very worried about it when there was a Republican President.  I think that's good that we're having this discussion.

But I think it's important for everybody to understand -- and I think the American people understand -- that there are some tradeoffs involved.  I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs.  My team evaluated them.  We scrubbed them thoroughly.  We actually expanded some of the oversight, increased some of safeguards.  But my assessment and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks.  And the modest encroachments on the privacy that are involved in getting phone numbers or duration without a name attached and not looking at content, that on net, it was worth us doing.  Some other folks may have a different assessment on that.

But I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.  We're going to have to make some choices as a society.  And what I can say is that in evaluating these programs, they make a difference in our capacity to anticipate and prevent possible terrorist activity.  And the fact that they’re under very strict supervision by all three branches of government and that they do not involve listening to people's phone calls, do not involve reading the emails of U.S. citizens or U.S. residents absent further action by a federal court that is entirely consistent with what we would do, for example, in a criminal investigation -- I think on balance, we have established a process and a procedure that the American people should feel comfortable about. 

But, again, these programs are subject to congressional oversight and congressional reauthorization and congressional debate.  And if there are members of Congress who feel differently, then they should speak up.  And we're happy to have that debate. 

Okay?  All right.  And we'll have a chance to talk further over the course of the next couple of days.

Q    Do you welcome the leaks, sir?  Do you welcome the leaks?  Do you welcome the debate?

THE PRESIDENT:  I don't welcome leaks, because there's a reason why these programs are classified.  I think that there is a suggestion that somehow any classified program is a "secret" program, which means it's somehow suspicious. 

The fact of the matter is in our modern history, there are a whole range of programs that have been classified because -- when it comes to, for example, fighting terror, our goal is to stop folks from doing us harm.  And if every step that we’re taking to try to prevent a terrorist act is on the front page of the newspapers or on television, then presumably the people who are trying to do us harm are going to be able to get around our preventive measures.  That's why these things are classified.

But that's also why we set up congressional oversight.  These are the folks you all vote for as your representatives in Congress, and they're being fully briefed on these programs.  And if, in fact, there was -- there were abuses taking place, presumably those members of Congress could raise those issues very aggressively.  They're empowered to do so.

 We also have federal judges that we put in place who are not subject to political pressure.  They’ve got lifetime tenure as federal judges, and they're empowered to look over our shoulder at the executive branch to make sure that these programs aren’t being abused.

So we have a system in which some information is classified, and we have a system of checks and balances to make sure that it’s not abused.  And if, in fact, this information ends up just being dumped out willy-nilly without regard to risks to the program, risks to the people involved -- in some cases, on other leaks, risks to personnel in a very dangerous situation -- then it’s very hard for us to be as effective in protecting the American people.

That's not to suggest that you just say, trust me; we’re doing the right thing; we know who the bad guys are.  And the reason that's not how it works is because we’ve got congressional oversight and judicial oversight.  And if people can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust Congress and don't trust federal judges to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution, due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here.

But my observation is, is that the people who are involved in America’s national security, they take this work very seriously.  They cherish our Constitution.  The last thing they’d be doing is taking programs like this to listen to somebody’s phone calls.

And by the way, with respect to my concerns about privacy issues, I will leave this office at some point, sometime in the last -- next three and a half years, and after that, I will be a private citizen.  And I suspect that, on a list of people who might be targeted so that somebody could read their emails or listen to their phone calls, I'd probably be pretty high on that list.  It's not as if I don't have a personal interest in making sure my privacy is protected.

But I know that the people who are involved in these programs, they operate like professionals.  And these things are very narrowly circumscribed.  They're very focused.  And in the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amuck, but when you actually look at the details, then I think we've struck the right balance.

     Thank you very much, guys.

                             END                9:27 A.M. PDT

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President Barack Obama came to California this week, ready to talk about Big Things: Healthcare, China and national security.

But sometimes, it's the little things that grab all the headlines.

As the president spoke at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose to tout the benefits of the Affordable Health Care Act, he stalled for a few moments. His notes weren't at the podium.

"There's only one problem, my remarks aren't sitting up here....People!" Obama said with a chiding tone. "Things on Friday afternoon. Well, things get a little challenged."

MORE: Obama: "One Problem: My Remarks Aren't Sitting Here

The president made a little small talk and shouted "People!" one more time. Finally, the papers were handed to him, only after someone stumbled a bit to get the prepared remarks up to the stage.

"Oh goodness...someone's tripping'," Obama said with a big grin on his face. "Folks are sweating back there right now."

The president then quickly turned serious and got to the business at hand - promoting Obamacare.

• Obama: "Nobody is Listening to Your Telephone Calls"
• Obama Visits Silicon Valley to Fundraise, Talk Obamacare

President Obama touched down in Air Force One at Moffett Field Thursday, marking the second time the leader of the free world has visited the Bay Area in as many months.

He trotted down the plane's stairs at 5:56 p.m. and greeted about 50 people invited to the landing, including Sunnyvale Mayor Tony Spitaleri, Ames Research director Peter Worden, California National Guard Col. Steven Butow and Mountain View Mayor John Inks.

After shaking Obama's hand, Inks said, "He told me how much he likes Mountain View. He says when his term is over he's going to be enjoying California more."

"He looks very, very good for having a tough job. His face is bright. That is a job that wears on you," Inks said.

Prior to heading to a scheduled fundraising event in Palo Alto, Mr. Obama took a few minutes to greet some of the public that were waiting at Moffett Field.

While the president doesn't need the money for his own campaign, his fundraising efforts in affluent Silicon Valley will go to help the Democratic Party.

Obama's visit, which will last less than 12 hours, began at the home of Flipboard CEO Mike McCue and his wife, Marci, in Palo Alto for an early evening reception.

Guests, who paid anywhere from $2,500 to $12,000 to attend the event, began lining up around 5 p.m. to get into the McCue's residence.

Marci McCue, who spoke outside of her home Thursday morning, admitted that she was both nervous and excited to host the president of the United States at her charming, seven-bedroom, multi-million, pale yellow home, fully decked out with red-white-and-blue banners.

MORE: "We're Excited to Primp Up a Little Bit," Marci McCue

Protesters, angry about Obama's support for the Keystone pipeline project, also greeted him on street corners. The project is an oil pipeline that will stretch from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

After Obama left the McCues, he headed to the Portola Valley residence of Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla and his wife, Neera, for a $32,000 dinner, complete with Greek salad, Fulton Valley chicken and hand-craft chai chocolate creameux cups.

MORE: President Obama's Peninsula Dinner Menu

In Portola Valley, political signs were left on the side of the road for the president to see. One sign read "Reinstate Glass Steagall." Others featured the message: Take money out of politics.

People who lined up the street in Portola Valley waved welcome signs when the president passed by.

Lauren Work brought her daught to see the president drive by.

"I've never seen a president so why not be part of history," she said.

MORE: Obama Delivers Message of Optimism, Urges Supporters to Stay Engaged

The president left the Portola Valley event at 9:01 p.m. and arrived about a half-hour later at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose.

In addition to the fundraising, Obama's visit will be marked by a more unusual occurrence -- a speech.

He'll spend Friday morning at a San Jose hotel talking about "Obamacare." He's expected to tout benefits of his Affordable Care Act by showing how it has created quality, affordable choices for Californians who plan to buy insurance this fall. California is the largest state with the biggest insurance market in the country, with nearly six million uninsured.

An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday shows that 49 percent of Americans think the signature health care reform law is a bad idea.

MORE: Health Care Law's Unpopularity Reaches New Highs

After his Friday morning talk, Obama will head to Los Angeles for a Democratic National Committee fundraiser.

Obama was in the Bay Area as recently as April for fundraisers in San Francisco.

A livestream of Obama's speech will be available Friday morning on NBCBayArea.com.

Bay City News and NBC Bay Area's Bob Redell, George Kiriyama, Stephanie Chuang, Kristofer Noceda and Jean Elle contributed to this report.

When President Obama touches down in Air Force One on Thursday evening, the arrival will mark the second time the leader of the free world has visited the Bay Area in as many months.

While Obama doesn't need the money for his own campaign, his fundraising efforts in affluent Silicon Valley will go to help his Democratic Party.

Obama's visit, which will last less than 12 hours, will begin at the home of  Flipboard CEO Mike McCue and his wife, Marci, in Palo Alto for an early evening reception ($2,500 to $12,000). Speaking outside her home Thursday morning, Marci McCue admitted that she was both nervous and excited to host the president of the United States at her charming, seven-bedroom, multi-million, pale yellow home, fully decked out with red-white-and-blue banners.

MORE: "We're Excited to Primp Up a Little Bit," Marci McCue

"We're excited to primp up a little bit," she said with a laugh, saying she had painted and pruned to host this not-so-simple reception at her home. The focus, she said, however, should be on raising money to help senate Democrats for their next election, especially to foward the party's goals on the environment and healthcare.

After Obama leaves the McCues, he'll swing by the Portola Valley residence of Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla and his wife, Neera, for a $32,000 dinner, complete with Greek salad, Fulton Valley chicken and hand-craft chai chocolate creameux cups.

 MORE: President Obama's Peninsula Dinner Menu

In addition to the fundraising, Obama's visit will be marked by a more unusual occurrence - a speech.

He'll spend Friday morning at a San Jose hotel talking about "Obamacare." He's expected to tout benefits of his Affordable Care Act by showing how it has created quality, affordable choices for Californians who plan to buy insurance this fall. California is the largest state with the biggest insurance market in the country, with nearly six million uninsured.

An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday shows that 49 percent of Americans think the signature health care reform law is a bad idea.

MORE: Health Care Law's Unpopularity Reaches New Highs

After his Friday morning talk, Obama will head to Los Angeles for a Democratic National Committee fundraiser.

Obama was in the Bay Area as recently as April for fundraisers in San Francisco.

NBC Bay Area's Bob Redell contributed to this report.

What do you serve when the President of the United States comes to dinner?

A source has revealed to NBC Bay Area the menu for Thursday night's meal in Portola Valley.

The purpose of the 16-hour visit is two-fold.

He has two fundraising events and one policy speech.

President Barack Obama's Air Force One will touch down at Moffett Field Thursday evening.

He will immediately make his way to a reception in Palo Alto, followed by dinner at the Portola Valley home of venture capitalist Vinod Khosla.

The following is what is being served at the Khosla home.

First Course:

“Greek” salad:

• Heirloom tomatoes
• Cucumbers
• Red onions
• Garbanzo beans
• Pepper cress
• Ricotta salata
• Black olive vinaigrette
• Za’atar Grissini

House-made California bread basket

• Olive oil rolls
• Onion flatbreads
• Savory madeleines

Wine pairing: Newton Chardonnay, Napa ‘11

Entree:

Fulton Valley chicken breast saltimbocca, Anson Mills farro verde, La Quercia prosciutto, local artichoke "Chips" and caper jus

Vegetarian option: Baby eggplant with housemade paneer-stuffed curried squash, spiced tomato chutney, naan, raita and heirloom organic pickled carrots

Wine pairing: Newton Unfiltered Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa ‘10

Selection of Petit Desserts

• Hand-crafted chai chocolate creameux cups
• Upside-down and stuffed raspberry tartlets
• Baked vanilla pavlovas with fresh cherries and cream
• Raspberry, lychee and peach paté de fruit
• Vanilla panna cotta with canteloupe pearls
• Assorted French macaroons
• Raspberry elderflower
• Salted caramel
• Cocoa nib Cognac
• Milk chocolate passionfruit

The Santa Clara County District Attorney charged a disgraced former county supervisor with a new allegation Wednesday, using the politician's DNA to link him to false impersonation during a San Jose city council race in 2010.

That's when prosecutors say George Shirakawa Jr. - who has admitted that he battles a gambling addiction and depression - sent out a fraudulent flier linking a council candidate with being a Communist from Vietnam.

The 51-year-old Shirakawa, who used to be president of the board of supervisors, was linked to the flier by a DNA test on a stamp.

MORE: The Complaint Against George Shirakawa Jr. (PDF)

DA Jeff Rosen's newest allegation added another blow to Shirakawa's already long list of convictions in a widely publicized corruption case that broke this spring. An election was held Tuesday night to replace him in District 2, which he resigned from after he was charged. A runoff election will be held July 30 because there was no clear majority winner.

"It is illegal and wrong to politically defame your adversary," Rosen said, adding that "freedom of speech " is paramount in this country and that tricking voters is an egregious act.

Shirakawa was not at the news conference and not available for immediate response. After he was charged in March, he issued an apologetic statement about his demons.

While DNA samples usually link suspects to crimes such as rape, burglary and murder, in this case, Shirakawa's DNA samples were used to allegedly link him to an illegal political hit piece mailed out three years ago. Rosen said using DNA in this type of political case is the first of its kind in the county.

The race was between between San Jose city council candidates, Xaviar Campos, who used to be Shirakawa's aide, and Magalena Carrasco, who lost by a slim margin.

At the news conference, Rosen displayed the ad on an easel, showing how the mailer labeled Carrasco as a Communist - a major deal in San Jose, where many Vietnamese fled a communist regime and hold awful memories of that form of government. The flier showed a photo of Carrasco next to a flag of North Vietnam, adopted by the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

A similar image was circulated against another Shirakawa opponent  during a board of supervisors race in 2008. Rosen said the ad was created to look as though it came from a San Jose city council candidate touting an affiliation to the Communist regime of Vietnam.

At the time, Carrasco denied that her campaign committee had anything to do with it. When Shirakawa was charged in March with 12 felony counts, his DNA was taken, and prosecutors say his cells were later found found on the flier.

This new charge throws into question how Shirakawa Jr. will be sentenced on Friday . That date was set after he had pleaded guilty to 12 counts of corruption and theft of public funds, with an agreement to spend no more than a year in county jail. Rosen said he will ask for more jail time. If convicted on this new charge, he faces a maximum of three years.

On Wednesday morning, labor leader Cindy Chavez was leading the race to fill a Santa Clara County Supervisor's seat left by disgraced George Shirakawa Jr, but she didn't have enough votes to win outright, forcing a runoff election on July 30.

With all 58 precints reporting, Chavez had 41 percent of the votes following the Tuesday night special election, with water district communications manager Teresa Alvarado following behind with 31 percent of the votes. To win, contenders would have had to have won with more than 50 percent of the vote.

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The costly $500,000 special election was held to fill the District 2 seat held by Shirakawa Jr., who pleaded guilty in March to 12 counts of corruption and theft of public funds. His plea saved him from a possible eight-year prison stint. He is now expected to be sentenced on Friday, where a judge will decide to honor his agreement with prosecutors to spend no more than one year in county jail.

Shirakawa Jr. resigned hours after he was charged on March 1, and admitted that he has long battled depression and a gambling addicition.

MORE: DA Charges Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr.

The mail-in ballots will be counted by Friday, with provisional votes to be tallied by Monday, elections officials said. Turnout was less than 17 percent of the 117,456 registered voters inistrict 2 for the nonpartisan contest. That percentage doesn't include the provisional and last-minute mail-in ballots.

The other candidates vying for the seat that represents Downtown San Jose and the city's East Side are Scott Hung Pham, a 49-year-old Vietnamese-American college instructor (14 percent), Patricia Martinez-Roach, 63, a schoolteacher and former school board member (7 percent); Joseph La Jeunesse, 44, a deputy county sheriff (3 percent); and David Wall, 58, a retired San Jose city employee (3 percent.) Andrew Diaz, 70, was a write-in candidate. 

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There were elections in other Bay Area counties as well on Tuesday night. Hercules voters passed a utility users tax with 70 percent of the vote. The Bolinas-Stinson Union School District passed Measure A, a special tax assessment, with 66.7 percent of the vote. And Watsonville's Measure T lost in a landslide: 77 percent of the voters rejected a proposal to expand onto 95 acres of farmland. Opponents, according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, had argued the land was too valuable for growing crops to pave over to solve the city's economic woes.

Pres. Barack Obama is slated to visit the Bay Area for a round of fundraisers next month, according to reports.

Obama will raise money for Democrats in the U.S. Senate on June 6 in Palo Alto and in Portola Valley, according to the San Francisco Examiner.

The president will attend a reception at the home of entrepreneurs Marci and Mike McCue, and will dine at the home of venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his wife Neeru.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colorado, are "expected" to accompany the president.

Obama was in the Bay Area as recently as April for fundraisers in San Francisco.

Bring your checkbook: a ticket to the dinner will run $32,400, while some time with the president at a reception will cost $2,500.

Leading up to the most recent elections this past fall, a small-time Dublin prosecutor in his early 30s, named Eric Swalwell made national headlines as he waged an aggressive battle to unseat a once-beloved 20-term member of Congress, Pete Stark.

Come Nov. 6, 2012, Swalwell was successful - the young upstart beat the outspoken and aging liberal Stark, who had overseen the Fremont area for 40 years from the Hill.

Fast forward to today and Congressman Swalwell is now making his way as a freshman member of Congress.

He feels he has finally landed.

“Well, 11 years ago I was just an intern on Capitol Hill,” said Swalwell, as he described how the tables have turned.

“For me, I still go to the elevators that say ‘Members Only’ and I look at them and wonder, ‘Am I allowed to get on that?’ – You kind of slap yourself and say, ‘Yeah, you’re here now, you belong.’”

While Swalwell long dreamed that he was going to be a professional soccer player when he grew up, that ended after he sustained an injury in college.

As he explains in an interview with Raj Mathai at the top of this article, Swalwell then turned his attention to politics.

He interned in Congress a decade ago. Now, he is a member of Congress at the age of 32, representing East Bay communities like Dublin, Fremont and Hayward.

Upset by a line of questioning, US Attorney General Eric Holder tells Rep. Darrell Issa that his conduct as a member of Congress is "unacceptable and shameful."

Holder was grilled Wednesday on several scandals rocking the Obama administration, including the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service, the secret gathering of telephone records at The Associated Press and any missteps in sharing intelligence information prior to the bombings in Boston.

At one point, Holder had a sharp exchange with local Rep. Issa (R) the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform.

The video clip below shows what happened after Issa requested the full content of emails from Obama's nominee for Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez.

Republicans have said that Perez acted inappropriately during his time at the Justice Department.

When Issa suggested the AG's office didn't want Congress to see the content of the emails, Holder criticized the Congressional leader saying the comment "...is inappropriate and too consistent with the way in which you conduct yourself as a member of Congress."

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Brians Banks joined the “Innocence March” in Malibu Saturday as part of a 660-mile walk to support the California Innocence Project, an organization that helped exonerate him last year of rape charges after he served five years in prison for a wrongful conviction.

In the Los Angeles area for Mother's Day, Banks and his mother, Leomia Myers, met marchers and attorneys from the social justice program at the route’s Malibu stop as part of the larger two-month-long march from San Diego to Sacramento to draw attention to wrongful convictions. 

Banks joined the Atlanta Falcons last month, realizing a lifelong dream that was derailed when the Long Beach Polytechnic High School football star was sent to prison following a classmate's rape allegation.

March organizers were excited that Banks and his mother made time during his visit to support the group's efforts.

“I am thrilled Brian is able to fly cross-country to spend Mother’s Day with his mom and walk in the Innocence March with us,” Justin Brooks, director of the California Innocence Project, said in a news release. “Since the day we exonerated him, he has been committed to helping other men and women who have been wrongfully convicted."

The CIP marchers were protesting the incarceration of the “California 12” -- 12 men and women who they believe were wrongfully convicted.

The group’s “freedom walk” started in downtown San Diego on April 27 and is set to finish at the state Capitol on June 20, where marchers will present clemency petitions for the “California 12” to Gov. Jerry Brown.

Banks was a highly-touted young athlete who was accused of rape at age 16. He was arrested and, on the advice of counsel, pleaded no contest to avoid a possible life sentence. 

A hidden-camera confession by his accuser, Wanetta Gibson, led to his exoneration after he spent five years in prison. Banks' conviction was thrown out in May 2012.

A private investigator caught Gibson on tape admitting that she made up the story that Banks raped her in a stairwell. The Long Beach Unified School District sued Gibson in April for $2 million to recoup a settlement she was awarded after trial.

Banks signed with the Atlanta Falcons on April 3.

U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo) has fired off a letter to the Secretary of Defense, bringing his attention to what she called a "disturbing Facebook page," which includes many negative comments and photos denigrating women in the Marine Corps.

NBC Bay Area is not showing all these photos because they are inappropriate, but one shows a woman's breasts and her fingers flipping someone off in an image that is labeled "F'N Wook," and another shows a female Marine putting a colleague in a choke hold with the words, "This is my rape face." Speier said she did not know who the Facebook page belonged to, and she was tipped off to it by a whistleblower. The page has since been taken down.

Speier's letter (PDF) and accompanying Facebook screen grabs was dated May 8, and sent to Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel, Commandant of the Marine Corps General James Amos and Principal Deputy Inspector General Lynne Hal brooks. Her letter comes as the national uproar over sexual assaults in the military following a Pentagon report this week saying that 26,000 military members were sexually assaulted last year.

"Many of the pictures imply women only advance professionally by performing sexual favors," Speier wrote. "And otherwise promote the idea that women are inferior and only useful as sexual objects and sandwich makers."

In a statement on behalf of the Marines received by e-mail on Wednesday, Capt. Eric Flanagan said that in general, "We have identified active Marines doing inappropriate posting on social media and they have been punished." 

In some cases, Flanagan said that Marines have faced "office hours" as "non judicial punishments" for unsavory comments posted online.

He said the men have been both active duty and reserve Marines and have been referred to commands for "appropriate action," though he was not specific about what that action was. Flanagan's comments were not necessarily made regarding the "F'N Wook" page, specifically highlighted by Speier.

Flanagan also issued some general facts about the Marines and their social media policies. Marines are responsible for all content they publish online, for example, and there is "no tolerance for discriminatory comments."

Violations of federal law and Department of Defense regulations or policies may result in disciplinary actions, which includes posting "any defamatory, libelous, abusive, threatening or ethnically hateful or otherwise offensive or illegal content."

When the Marines do receive a complaint regarding derogatory comments made online, Flanagan said that his military branch has notified companies such as Facebook about it. However, Flanagan said in an e-mail that "there are difficulties" in finding out the Marine who did it because people use fake accounts and pseudonyms. Social media sites, he said, are not obligated to divulge personal information to the Marines.

His statement added that the Marine Corps has been dealing with social media complaints "over the past ten years."

According to Speier, Amos has been aware of this specific Facebook page and monitoring it for three years. And despite the monitoring, the "cyber retaliation against those who complain about the website's content continues unabated," Speier wrote.

On her website, Speier called for "Hagel and Marine Leadership to Respond," and said that this type of vulgar "humor" seems to "encourage sexual assault and abuse."

Speier has worked long and hard to end what she calls an "epidemic of rape and sexual assault in the military," and has authored three pieces of legislation to change the military's justice system's treatment of cases of rape and sexual assault.

NBC Bay Area's Joe Inderhees and Cheryl Hurd contributed to this report.