tonight on "kqed newsroom," san francisco has a new mayor. we'll hearrom lndon breed and the first african-american to hold the post. he also from tt&t mega merger from time warner, a look at this week's developments in tech. plus a new book on a fateful meeting convened by robert f. kennedy more than 50 yrs ago d how that conversation continues today. hello and welcome to "kqed newsroom." i'm thuy vu. with the new mayo elect london breed. san francisco waited as votes for counted in a tight rac f mayor. either of the top two candidates promised to be a first for the city. mark leno would be the first openly gay mayor.do while lbreed would be the

first african-american woman to lead the city. finally on wednesday morning he conceded to breed. the new mayorect grew up in the westn addition neighborhood and was first elected to the board of officers in 2012. she sat down with editor scott schafer. >> thanks for coming in. >> of course. >when you walked throug the doors of city hall and you said my name is london london breed, what went through your mind? >> i couldn't believe it toell yo the truth. it almost felt like a. dre it's amazing and i'm excited to be here. >> you did a callout to your grandmother, ms. brown. >> yes, i'm sure she would have b wn happy. t did you learn from her? >> i learned from her that you take care of each other. she took care of the community. we didn't have mbut it was important that, for example, my grandmother would cook all the time. and people would come over and

we would feed other people. i would ask why are we aoa ing away our food, you be quiet she wouldsa being part of a community is what you do. >> living in public, housin you must see and hear and experience all kinds of thin most people don't. i'm wondering wharhow do you approach issues? >> the desire to make sure that even though i have been the exception coming out of that environmed even going to college and doing well in life, i don't want -- i want this to be the norm. >> what as an example mayor that you think you can do to make a difference? > one of the things i want to do as mayor is provide paid internshipie opportuni for all high school students. not necessarily that the city would pay for everything, but we

have incredible companies here inhe health care sector, the tech se incredible destroindustries rig the dbacky and i want them to be exposed to what's possible in life at an ealy age and part of that is paidnternships because we're talking about young people who come from single family homes where their grandmothers are raising them. i want to make sure they're abll to generatetle bit of money in the process so they stay out of trouble so that they don't do many of the things my family membe did growing up breaking into cars, selling drugs, doing things that wondd ou in juvenile hall, or things that were naturally a part of your environment that were easy to do. >> homelessness, a big issue. voters told you. do you think theity is on the right track right now? >> so i think that the city is somewhat on the right track.

i think part of it is we have systems in place to help adess the issue. but the problem that we have are people who struggle with mental illness. and i think that's really why that's going to be my focus, is making changes to our laws and providing options for those who we can't get housed, those who we can't in some cases get them housed but we can'tm keep t housed. >> one of the things you were clear about is housing. you said it again on wednesday afternoon. we don't build enough housing, it was ve there are things also that make it more expensive to build in wn francisco. and you knot they are, the cost and time of permitting fees, review. what would you bedo willing t to speed up the construction of homes and bring downhe costs? >> i ultimately want to cut down the time to delop any new housing in half, especially when

you talk about 100% affordable housing. and it takes years build. even when you have financing for a project it suld not be the case, and i'm committed to analyzing the process and making significant chages so th there is a difference. otherwise we are not going to sing nywhere with h production in this city. >> being mayor is a big job. it tough job. what do you feel like you need to learn in order to be successful as mayor? >> i think i need to learn patienc to be successful as mayor because unfortunately it is a city, there's bureaucracies, there's process, there's layers t butnk unfortunately the city has more layers of process and bureaucracy than we can stand. it is crippling us in our ability to be an effective city to deliver for our residents. >> why do you think you're impatient? >> it's a natural part of my

personality. if i see a pothole, for example, want the pothole fixed, like, now. and if insixed the next day, we have challenges likehehat all over city. it's just taking time to get to everything. it's a large city and there's lot rk that needs to be done, but we always got to as on far as i'merned work at getting it done and making progress for our residents. >> one of the things you pushed for on the boardas safe injection sites to get addicts ff the street and get, sir - eedle off the street. >>, for example, now nonprofit organizations we work withhat provide services around detox and needle exchange, they receive state and sometimes federal fundinghe and are certain laws that come with that

fuing. and s we are working to try and figure out what could potntially work, a pop-up site or some way wctcan pro those organizations and still host a site of this nature for the purposes of addressing this issue. e're doing now clearly isn't working. just cleaning it up and moving peoplen' around doe solve the problem. i think this could be a possible solution to at issue. an one other thing that has statewide issue, a national issue and it's related to the trump administration is sanctuary city policies,te sanctuary s policies. are you comfortable with the policy that san francisco has right now in terms of levels of cooperation between the sheriff and the jails and other law enforcement offials and the federal government? are you comfortable with it? >> i'm comfortable with the laws we havenow. and i think, you know, what we should do as a city is continue to protect all the residents who are a part of our city. so i think in terms of the way that our laws exist, the goal is to treat our immigrant

communities the same as if they are a real part of our communit whether te a citizen or not, and that's the whole point of sanctuary city >> could you do what mayor lip libby shaff did, warning the community about that? >> icould, yes, and i've made that clear that what i will do as mayors " protect all of my residents and i would do exactly what mayor shaff did. i applaud her for her efforts. she's taken a lot of heat for that, and i just continue to be or suer and an advocate for what is right as mayor of san >> one of the issues that's going to come before youor bef too long is these scooters. you ever ridden one o those? >> i have and i like the scooters. i think they're a great alternative mode of ke nsportation just bicycle the city is growing and changing, but i don' like the fact people are riding their

bicycles and scooters on the sidewalks. so we need definitely enforcement and we need to make sure when theyoll out again there's appropriate regulations so we all share the road in a fair and constructive way. >> mayorondon breed, i think speak for all san franciscans g when i sayd luck. this week a federal judge approved an $85 billion mergeal etween at&t and time warner. the case had been closely a watched bully weather after are other big corporate deals. it owns directv.t e warner owns cnn and hbo. the ruling was a blow to the justice department which has sued lastovember to block the merger surying it would ht competition and lead to highere pric for consumers. also this week, electric car aker tesla cut its workforce by 9%, the ceo said layoffs would help the company be more

profitable. joining me are market watch tech editor and bureau chief jeremy owens. chief technology correspondent ina a federal judge has cleared the ery for the $85 billion purchase of time wa >> there's a huge fight for content out there. netflix and all the originat contt's making and all these places are trying to get more content and that is a huge expenseor a place like at&t which owns directv and is paying for those channels they t on directv. when you look atchomcast w purchased nbc universal. to cmpete well it felt lit needed to get that same deal. >> programming that's very popular like "game of thrones," cnn, the harry potter movie franchise.hi so begs the question, and a lot of people are pointing to

this, does this mean that we will now see a big wave of other similar corporate deals gfter thisen light from the judge. one day is it the at&ti don comcast announced an a cash offer for 21st century fox. >> that's the big obvious one,w but thisl open the floodgates. basically the court gave i approval to this idea ofl horizon mergers, to buy schls content as they want. that etho will be applied more broadly. i thnk everyone from drugstore can buy an insurance company. it will be very broad. in the tech area it's going to force consolidation, deals like this bidding war over fox, comcast said they wanted to enter the fray, but had the at&t time warner ruling not gone its way, comcast would have made a

narrow bid. >> will the trump administratio challenge any of these deals? this is a huge blow. or do you think the justice department will shy away om allenging any of these? >> i certainly learned not to totally predict what the trump administration will do. that said, the judge was careful to say this is a ruling about this deal al veryrly didn't want to say all such deals should get a rubber stamp. so there is room for the doj to deal and with another say this one isn't okay. i think they may be me cautious. certainly there's versocal deals sprint is trying to merge with t-mobile. will the doj or any of the mpetition authorities step in there? >> i don't think they would go fter the cvsna a deal, but something like sprint and t-mobile where those arewo companies where there are only

four wireles criers and two of them are trying to merge. and they've already tried before and have been told no. that' the one that we'll see. did this make the trump administration think maybe we shouldn't go after these deals, that's the real test. >> i ink sprint and t-mobile, their legal case got stronger beuse they're going to say we're barely competing in wireless and now our two big rivals are out there buying oodles of content. ni think some ways we may just see another wave of mergers. >> that bundling is such big thing because you can bundle yourhome internet, cable everything, and give you deals on the content. how does sprintnd-mobile as independent companies compete with that if they're able to bunle and charge less? >> will you get deals, though? could it in the long run lead to higher prices for consumers? >> the government's top witness in this case was forced to admit it would probably lead to lower

prices ft customers, at least in the short term. is longy were saying term we may see this kind of come down to basicly just at&t, comcast, and verizon competing against each othernd eventually that could make prices rise if we get to that . poi but they couldn't prove we would get to that point. >> i think it's also an issue of not just lower prices or higher prices in the short and long term, which are obviously all alsotant issues, but content choice and the issue of is at&t going to give preference to the content that it ns. and then they said the simplicity reason for this merger is so they can serve up more advertising. facebook andgl g already have targets ads but at least they're giving me their service for free. i'm paying online to at&t or verizon for my cell phone bill. >> you just touied on some i want to ask, that is the

question over who controls content. t&t decision came on the heels of the end of neteutral this weekend. those were the rules that requed at&t to treat all web traffic equally and not prioritize theirontent over others. what does this landscape now mean? we have the at&t merger approved and the end of net neutral. how does this all affect consumers? >> we'll have to see. if at&t chooses to prefer its own content, it's going to against the ethos of net neutrality. does that hurt netflix? but consumers still have the choice. if at&t funnels hbo really fast, a netfl fan can just go to comcast. ife do end up with very few options and you can't hop easily froompany to company, locked into contracts, that's where we aun intoissue. >> i agree, jeremy. i think the bigoissue is

to be fewer choices. these are a small number of big companies, so your choice is going to be do you want to go with at&t, which is bundling and giving you the best deal on time warner content, do you want to go with verizon that's pushing its bundle of content? netflix is likely to stay independent and disney is entering thea there are choices but there are certainly >> there's been so muchrn con from advocates in terms of this deal. but the flip could alsopp h that many times tech industry merge mergers don't always take off. look at time warner and >>aol. that was another point we raised. that was a double whammy. one of my editor's points was they made this struggle just to intealrate the de these are tough deals and they talked about the culture pany is e, a media c

really different than a pipe coasany. at at&t ceo is saying the right things, we're goingheo leave alone, we get it's a different business. we'll see. cerinly aol didn't leav the time warner people alone and it was a big,e ugly divo >> there's no telling what's going to happen when you try to merge two large companies. if disney ends up owning fox, they're going to have to bring in two very different media companies and try to merge them. what's going to happen with that t'is impossible to say ahead of time. >> but it opens the door a to facebook or google acquiring other companies, message nervices, data companies, right? >> or e content companies. apple just signed a deal with oprah winfreyde to pro content for them and they'll be looking for content. thought they e were going to go for the fox deal and nw you have different buyers. it's going to be an interesting thing to watch.

ifll content ends up being owned by the service providers as well. >> i want to talk quickly about tesla as well. news this week that it's laying off k90% ofor itsorce trying to get the model 3 out on time. will this be en gh to get the company to profitability, and also get the model 3 on a timetable that consumers dpect? >> 't think it's going to help them get it out any faster. i don't know that it will have a huge negative impact in the sense that, a you mentione it's not the workers building them which is the bottle neck. it's growing pains. it's a sign of discipline they're looking to turn profitable, yes, that's a growth sign, but layoffs are rarely a panacea for problems, so i don't t ink so it's going to make better in terms of getting shipments out the door. >> and then elon m usk today announcing a deal with chicago

o'hare to have these underground people mors to take people from downtown chicago to o'hare in 12 minutes. doesn't teslaghave eno on its plate? >> yeah, it definitely does. elon has been known to overpromise the ability to do things. the model 3 should be at 10,000 production rate right now and it's not. he said he could build this for under a bil on dollars, and we'll see if that's the case. >> he does make a lot of epromises. jy owens, thank you for being here. 15 years ago this month, then democratic candidate rert kennedy was killed in los angeles. his thig on race evolved after an intense meeting

in 1963 with writer jame bdwin including lina horn and harry bell upon the ta son writes about how more than 50 years later america still struggles to have an honest conversation about race. joining me is writer and georgetown university professor of sociology mark zbliecdyson. >> i want to ask you happened in san francisco. we have the the first african-american woman mayor of this city. she grew up in the housing projects, now has the city's top job. what is your reaction to that? >> it's extraordinary. she lost her ster to drug overdose, an incredible woman who feels the heartbeat of the people, who understand that there are tremendous odds against her, thinking about cleaning up the streets of san frcisco, talking about t homeless problems, talking about gentification. speing about the diminishing numbers of people of color,

especially afroan-american e in the city. but she is an incredible leader. she did a great job as a commissioner. she takes the helm of this city at a point of crisis after the death of a belov mayor, but she has fre thinking on the city and joining different part of the city to overcome the problems. >> she's definitely rising. i want to take a st back in history and talk about the prem of your book, which is the 1963 -u.s. g between th attorney general robert f. kennedy and james baldwin. itnas supposed to be a frly gathering but it became very bitter? >> initially they me over breakfast the day before. and because it was a rh meeting, baldwin's plane was late when he got t d.c. then out to virginia. the attorney general said tomorrow i'll be in new york,

let's get together. they got together he said bring some of your friends. they also brought a student activist who was one of the most storied activists, freedom writers. meeting. to the kennedy wanted to black people to be grateful for what he and i see brother were doing. and theonwere having of it. they said we're tied of this the young man, jerome smith, said don't worry about it the voice of rage. be concerned about me who's willing toake up a gun because i'm tired of all of this.t he trie pivot away, robert kennedy, to the responsible black people, but with they said the only peon you need to listen to is him. it got nasty and bitter. kennedy was angry. at the end of the meeting he to

went back his office and to the people w were there. he eventually said if i were black, i would be ary too, maybe i should calm down and talk about race as a moral issuy the hey wanted me to and it changed his whole life. by the time hied he became as the most trusted white man in merica for black people. >> that brought out the tension een the policy making and the moral center andow it evolved about race relations. and that conversation isn't over. where does that conversation stand today? >> when hillary clinton met up with black lives matter people any said how has your heart changed about public polif y? u have no policy that changes we'll be here 20 years from n talking about the same thing. it's not what i feel, it's what we do in terms of policy. that's still a clash. she has a point. kennedy had a point. but the point of baldwin and

lack lives matter is equally important. it's on the books that you shouldn't kill unarmed black people, but it keeps happening. that's the way in which peopl feel about and think about the other. so we need both social witness and public policy together so that we can make things better in this society. >> you write in your bookhat as bigotry surfaces, yourite the lie is put to the belief that this is not american. this is not us. when indeed it truly is. hasn't a lot of progress been made though, since 1963? >> malcolm x said if you stick a knife in my back and pull it out six inchs, that's n progress. you're still killing me. yes, there's been enormous progress. black president, but look how he was treated. if he followed up with a bigot like the president who makes no

designations between bigots and peop who are racists and those who challenge that. >> african-americans claim he's doing and rising in the polls. >> the man who put the plunger up the behind was dating black woman. sleeping back doesn't mean you know black. you try to talk about a systematic problem that creates injustice in the first place that puts black people in prison. thank god, i'm glad for that but address systematic issues. >> you make a surprising comparison in the book between donald trump and bernie ssand essentially saying they are mirror images of each other. can you explain th >> i'm not suggesting that in any way that bernie sanders holds the offensive owedous views. the egregious views of donald rump. but they're both older white anys who took a long time for them to under about race.

bernie sanders was equally cantankerous. he was very fussy and bitter about it, he is like,on't need to learn anything. it's a janet jackson world, what have you done for me lately. both of them are mirror images each other in the sense that they don't understand the centrality and necessity of race in such a progressive fashion. bernie sanders to his credit ish grappling hat and grasping hold of that in a way donald trump shows no indication thet willing to do. >> we just have about 30 seconds remaining. you writeehat pres trump is treating the entire nation as black. >> that's right. >> what do you mean by that? >>ahat black have to white america about how unfortunate and tragic it is to be disrespected, to be talkeis about, thihat donald trump is doing to most of america now. every morning he rises to excrete the feces of his moral drivety. he's calling people out my names, narcissistic, no matter what epeople, do treats them

the same way. that's whas it feel like to be black in a racist and bigoted country. >> always interesting to have a conversation with you. your new book is "what truth sounds like" and you'll be we commonwealth kmub monday 6:30 i san francis >> that will do it for us. you can find more for our coverage at kqed.orgmewsroom. huy vu. thank you for joining us.

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