who are here today, like sean richard from brothers against guns, and the healing circle with mattie scott. it was an incredible effort and i'm proud of the work we did in the western edition community. our residents and our police officers all want the same thing. they want our city, our families and our communities to be safe. this is our charge as leaders. president obama's task force on 21st century policing recommended that the police departments request investigations of use of force incidents in order to increase transparency and accountability to the communities they serve and we have done that here in san francisco. we continue to follow those recommendations. two years ago i, along with supervisor cohen had a resolution for the department of justice to conduct a thorough independent review of our police department. for me, it was important that we put san francisco on record requesting this review through a formal action of the board of supervisors, but we didn't stop there. at the same time supervisor cohen and i held regular hearings on use of force policies in order to have a

scotts on. it is reported that senior staff to the president, cohn, mattis and tillerson are all against this.y are afraid this would harm the global economy and damage relationships with allies. there are obviously people on the other side saying it's already damaging. how do you argue that? is it that china is breaking the rules or that we have a national security problem stp >> i think it's both, dana. i'd be quick to point out those are assertions folks made about cohn's point of view. i haven't heard him speak publicly about it. i have heard wilbur ross. i heard the president say very clearly they want to take action to defend america's steel industry and aluminum industry as well. there is a clear case here. i mean, we do have a global set of rules. unfortunately, china has been consistently violating them for the past couple of decades and we've been surrendering on trade. this is a president, one of the reasons he had such appeal in pennsylvania and ohio is that he said he would defend american workers, defend american industries. he's going to be well equipped to do this. i'm confiden