. >> good afternoon, supervisors scott taylor transbay joint powers authority i want to provide you with the transbay funding it is a significant portion of the melrose is designated for the transbay project. as a very brief r

. >> good afternoon, supervisors scott taylor transbay joint powers authority i want to provide you with the transbay funding it is a significant portion of the melrose is designated for the transbay project. as a very brief refresher the transbay project is drifted 20/20 construction phases first, the construction of the transbay building that broke ground in august of 2010 we finished it this year the groundbreaking and in t in the next over the course of the next phrase i'll is a structure steel frame of the entire facility emerge from the ground we're on track to complete construction of the transit center and begin bus partitioned in late 2017 and we brought to the transbay joint powers authority board a budget adjustment of $310 million that was approved in july of 2010 that increased our budget there was 2 primer drivers the first were the results of a assessment that was prudent as the project approached one hundred percent completion of the design in 2012 to do the vulnerability assessment that recommended $28 million in security enhancements and in early 2013 we were requested

scott taylor, associate professor at school foreign service and director of african study programs. dr. taylor research centers on politics and political economy but reticular and essays on business state relations, private sector development, governance and political and economic reforms. finally, we have dr. james haman who joins us from a poor school of public policy here at georgetown university. his research interests are in development economics and political economy, with particular interest in constraints to help as well as health policy. he also brings insider knowledge to the panel in uganda during the ebola outbreak in 2007. before we begin the discussion amongst the panelists, i'm going to pose a question to each of the panelists to give us some context into their particular perspective, beginning with dr. abramowitz. dr. abramowitz, you've been sending the liberian health factor in west africa and humanitarian response for over a decade. this means you have connected years and the fieldwork region, including gaffin now reaching of new guinea, the first area of the outbr

scott taylor said it, dr.bump said it earlier, who would have expected, who could have expected that they would have had the systems in place to respond in -- to respond? there is, as several people have said and ronnie just said, there are big lessons here for the future of the international system and its ability or inability to respond, because this isn't going to be the last ebola crisis, and this has really exposed enormous weaknesses in the global ability to respond to emerging disease threats. i'm not an expert on that, and others will comment op that, but i think there's a huge lesson going forward. in terms of a couple of comments on the economics and politics, president sirleaf outlined a lot of the devastation that's going on. it's really quite enormous. among many other things, i'll just highlight one she didn't touch on which is the impact on the budget, which you might not think of. but the government revenue is way down because they rely very heavily on import tariffs, and trade is down, so impo

doctor scott taylor in the school of foreign service and the director of african studies program, doctor taylor research focuses on the political economy with particular emphasis on the business state relations, private sector development, governance and political and economic reform. finally we have doctor james who joins us from the school of public policy here at georgetown university. the research interests are in development economics and political economies with particular interest in the constraints to health as well as health policy. he also brings insider knowledge to the panel as he was in uganda during the ebola outbreak in 2007. before we begin the discussion among the panelists, i'm going to pose a question to each of the panelists to give some context into their particular perspective beginning with doctor who,. you've been studying the health sector and west african humanitarian response for over a decade. this means conducting use of fieldwork in the region including the region of guinea. the first epicenter of the outbreak. and then in the affected regions of liberia. ca

scott taylor said it, dr. bob said earlier, who would've expected -- who could've expected they would've had the systems in place to respond. there is, as several people have said and ron just said, they're a bit less sincere for the future of the international system and its inability to respond because this isn't the last ebola crisis. it's not going to be the last public-health crisis and this is what makes those enormous weaknesses in the global ability to respond to emerging diseases. i am not an expert on not another soul comment on that. or is a huge lesson going forward. .. to the set of circumstances like this one when one of the things they need is cash in figuring out how to do that. usaid is providing $5 million in cash and they were twisted and pretzels to figure out how they were going to provide $5 million in cash. the imf is actually going to step up in the next two weeks or so and provide around $50 million cash to the liberian government and seller smaller amounts so the organizations is goin

taylor. it's unclear whether they can force that. joining me dillon scottporter for talking points memo. taylor says he's going to withdraw his name from the ballot. it appears because democrats think that without him, orman might win and might caucus with the democrats. he's the best chance to beat roberts. taylor writes a letter to the secretary of state who is an infamous conservative activist named kris kobach and what happens next? >> at that point, kobach decides that under state law and his interpretation of it, taylor is not allowed to withdraw from the race. taylor promptly sued kobach and then we went to the supreme court who issued their ruling today. their interpretation of the state law is that taylor's letter was sufficient to take his name off the ballot and so yeah, now the ball's in kobach's court. he's already said that he thinks that the democrats have to name a replacement for taylor but it's not sure what recourse he has to force them to do that and whether there's enough time to get the ballots printed so they can be sent out to absent