politically well to discuss that i'm now joined by mitchell good call for russian opposition politician and a former member of parliament mr it's good to talk to thank you very much for your time now you're not running in the russian presidential elections but i think you may have contributed more to voters in gauging and then some of the candidates every way appreciate the program that you created of enlisting citizens or voters as monitors which i think really helps to energize the base but why do you think projects like this capacity building projects democratic projects like this are so rare in russia. that there is a new threat or is it to produce a bit in the. and if we don't thing that it's a real elections because you know one of the. critics at least in the army just was bound to produce a play in this election's there is a serious police in the position so. i said i want to launch an electoral campaign to break all those elections i soon that we need to support those cordons critics who will be in the belak list so or and try to unite the people from different strategies into the project we would like to organize

you know into a two line fifty two percent of support just one year before that and the important mr good cause i don't believe your story about historical parallels i think i don't think they ever of work and this is perhaps simplifying. the matters a little bit but can i ask you why do you want to kill don't believe in any polls who are for the situation can be changed drastically after the split over loop and i believe some split over loop because in all. the moves in the parliament in the government and the close circle of podium there is a consensus in the loop can i ask you a question about that because specifically about the power transition and the change of power in russia all the candidates in these elections including putting himself say that in principle they support. that powers need to be changed in a regular basis but i think for the kremlin the question is always not why but when and how if putin tomorrow wakes up and decides you know i've been in power for way too long i just need to find something more exciting to do with the rest of my life do you think our country the

mr. walden: that's good. [laughter] mr. mcdowell: nor 3g. nor 4g. [laughter] mr. walden: no, look, we have to be able to have these discussions. we're having a little fun with this here. we need to have robust discussion, people need to kick out ideas, i get that, and i don't think it had elevated itself to where the white house had a position on this, by the way. and i have every confidence that, you know, some of the other important elements of the government, the fcc, the ntia , would have weighed in in the proper time and matter. this is a leaked document, apparently, according to news reports. it should also trouble us, friendly, the other part of me, the national security council can't keep track of its own power point? [laughter] mr. walden: just saying. that's probably all i should say on that topic. my staff says i'm out of time, gotta go. mr. mcdowell: so i think originally before this news sort of broke with the state of the union coming up, as we always have state of the net around the time of the state of the union, and infrastructure being a hot topi

mr. secretary, good morning to you. ainsley: good morning. >> good morning to you all. steve: great to have you. we will play a sound bite for you because having lived down in texas your whole life, you are very concerned with immigration. here's the president yesterday talking about if california is going to be a sanctuary state, maybe the federal government should pull the ice guys out. listen to this. >> frankly, it's a disgrace. the sanctuary city situation, the protection of these horrible criminals, you know because you are working on it the protection of these horrible criminals in california in and other places. if we ever pulled our ice out. let california alone, let them figure it out for themselves, in two months they would be begging for us to come back. they would be begging. and you know what? i'm thinking about doing it. steve: governor, what do you think? >> well, i think that this whole issue of immigration has always been incredibly difficult one. if it wasn't, it would have been done a long time ago. the president is a first rate negotiator. is he cle

. >> caller: good morning, mr. hood. >> good morning. >> caller: you said that you got $22 million back from that pharmaceutical company there. i don't remember how many years that you fought to get that back. but my question is how much did it cost you to fight that for all those years? >> yeah. we were able to basically privatise that outside counsel attorneys foot the bill for it. if they lose, we don't recover anything. our state contract is much lower than what people get when they hire a lawyer. and at a maximum after appeal and everything it goes -- the legislature is capped at 25%. so we have been very successful in recovering those funds and using outside counsel to help us do it. they have expertise in these cases. many of these case that's we filed, you know, there's been a recovery in other states. and so, you know, a lot of law firms that do that type practice, they will go around to other states and they've already got the model. and so it's just a matter of engaging the firms to go out and do the work

mr. rosenstein: good morning. the indictment charges 13 russian nationals and three russian companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere with the united states political system, including the 2016 presidential election. the defendants allegedly conducted what they called "information warfare" against the united states with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system. according to the allegations of the indictment, 12 of the individual defendants worked at various times for a company called internet research company -- research agency llc, a russian company based in st. petersburg. the other defendant funded the conspiracy through companies known as concorde management and consulting llc, concorde catering, and many other affiliates and subsidiaries. the conspiracy was part of a larger operation called project latka. project latka included multiple components, some including domestic audiences and others targeting foreign audiences in multiple countrie

war activities in eastern guta there were in fact for one day two secretaries general in new york mr good terrorists his previous sesa bang ki-moon had also been invited to speak he also expressed concern at the continued bloodshed in the syrian situation you'd really have must come to an end it's going to be a seventy year going for a come march tenth even the seventh year of doing daughter seven years a sore many civilian population have been killed there is now a new peace effort the ambassador of sweden hopes to bring a new draft resolution to a vote in the council in the coming days we're asking for a cessation of hostilities for thirty days throughout syria throughout syria forty or forty eight hours after that access for weekly u.n. humanitarian and convoys aid aid convoys to. areas in need particularly urgent busy areas russia had blocked previous efforts to get a resolution on a cease fire in eastern guta facing mounting criticism and bassa vasoline the benzine has now himself called for a security council meeting on the situation on thursday the charter which the un has actually

into a two line you have fifty two percent of support just one year before that and the one part of mr good cause i don't believe your story about historical parallels i think i don't think that ever of work and this is perhaps simplifying. the matters a little bit but can i ask you why i just want to tell don't believe in any polls that are for the situation can be changed drastically after the split over loop and i believe some split over loop because you know. the moods in the parliament in the government and the closed circle was put him there is a come some sort in the loop can i ask you a question about that because specifically about the power transition and the change of power in russia all the candidates in these elections including putting himself say that in principle they support. powers need to be changed in their regular bases but i think for the kremlin the question is always not why but when and how. putin tomorrow wakes up and decides you know i've been in power for way too long i just need to find something more exciting to do with the rest of my life do you think our coun

to eight to nine you have fifty two percent of support just one year before that and the one point mr good cause i don't believe the story of historical parallels i think i don't think they ever of work and this is perhaps simplifying. the matters a little bit but can i ask you why do you want to tell the don't believe in any polls that are for the situation can be changed drastically after the split of a loop and i believe some split over lou because you know. the mood in the parliament in the government and the close circle of put him there is it comes some sort of the loop can i ask you a question about that because specifically about the power transition and the change of power in russia all the candidates in these elections including putting himself say that in principle they support. that powers need to be changed in their regular bases but i think for the kremlin the question is always not why but when and how if. tomorrow wakes up and decides you know i've been in power for way too long i just need to find something more exciting to do with the rest of my life just saying our count

mr. pickford. good morning. we are going to turn your microphone on. >> thank you. i mr. present -- i will present the first request and hand it over to my colleague. circulation improvements of the daly city bart station. this includes upgrading exiting pedestrians ramps that provides access to the bart station including the 14 r mission rapid to make it ada compliant. currently, the muni bus drops passengers at a lower level bus stop which you can hopefully see on the screen. it lays over in the upper level parking lot before looping back to the lower level. this ramp will allow the 28 to leave directly from the upper level stop, which mta will save about 23 minutes a route which could end up in $150,000 per year in operations cost. the operation will be separate with san mateo county, expected to be open in summer of 2018. i will pass it off to eric. >> good morning commissioners. on your screen you see there the dpx project overview that's already been environmentally cleared. i want to give you a background as it relates to this request. the dtx was cleared and has t

good. they cheat the neighbor. cheat everyone. that's illegal. thank you for everyone. >> mr. tam, was that foundation issue resolved with you? >> well, i'm still -- >> they indicated that was resolved. >> no. i'm still -- they poured the concrete under the foundation, but still, i think [indiscernible]. well, my house is still chopped down from the front to the back because they do the foundation. they take down 5.5 feet down and now -- >> i heard you say that before. >> thank you very much. >> okay. rebutted al from -- rebuttal fre permit holder. >> overhead, please. so, of course, we, again, in regards to the 311 process, i can't defend how the planning department sends out our electronic files, but there are records from sharon young, the planner, and she -- we do have the records of the package that was sent out. so, of course, we would never send out other notifications with another architect's plans. that doesn't make any sense at all. so i can't defend that. in regards to the specific project at hand, i did want to show you -- we did make very specific things to addres

mr. samuels: there's a fellow over here. go ahead. >> good afternoon. mr. samuels: the microphone doesn't seem to be working. >> my question is about paying for the tax plan if and when the next economic downturn comes. there are some theories that the economy is doing well, so when the economy tanks, you can pull back and be less fiscally tight. my question is -- are there countries that have this corporate tax rate pretty high individual tax income rates? my question is how are we going to offset our lowered corporate tax rate in the same way that those countries do? if and when there's another downturn or a bubble, are we going to be in a position where we can do something about it given that now that the economy is improving our debt is still growing? mr. hassett: thanks for the question. i think that again the first step and the president prioritized list from the very first time i ever talked to him was to make the u.s. competitive again so that plants would locate here and capital would be there for productivity growth. he did not may be exactly say

good evening and welcome, mr. steen. >> good evening commissioners. matthew steen, san francisco forest alliance. we testified at the dpw hearing at which a number of these records were not available until the contractors actually came up to speak and turn these records in to the hearing officer. so i didn't feel there was sufficient advance public notice or availability of these abatement letters. or mitigation plans. but in general, i just wanted to repeat my testimony from the hearing in september. that these are significant trees that deserve the greatest protection under the public works code. and that a street protection plan was filed, some tree protection is on site now, although i don't know if the tree protection is around all of the perimeter trees planted by friends of urban forest and if those are impacted. i did want to emphasize there was simply a lack of public notice. i did a records request shortly after from public works shortly after the hearing officer upheld the hearing officer's decision. and these plans were not available in th

mr. president. as usual, very good report, mr. corso. thank you. >> thank you. >> on sfo, you described all these items -- training, the bikes, the inspector. all that is not -- that's a separate item that will not have any negative effect on the overall budget back up in the city. that just deals with the airport, they are paying for it, and it just happens to be we have to review it and that process has to be approved, right? >> absolutely. so we work very closely with the airport and their budget staff and obviously with the chief and their operation staff there. they are 100 is fund t% fund t and the department with the airport. it is incorporated into our budget, but it is funded 100% by the airport, and similar to the port, they pay for the port fire marshall, some fire prevention personnel, as well, as well as the boat and the pilot, so that's 100% funded by the port. >> i've seen sfpd on bicycles at the airport, and we have no one in the fire department right now using the bicycle or is that -- are we -- do we have some of that h

oxide well the mayor of dusseldorf is thomas guys well he joins me tonight from dusseldorf good evening to you mr mayor so what does today's ruling mean for you will you now ban diesel vehicles from your city well good evening well first of all it does not necessarily mean that we have to bend these will cars i mean what the court has decided is that a ban on diesel cars is legally possible but it has to be implemented by maintaining what they call the proportionality principle that means only if a ban on diesel cars is the only efficient means to reach the threshold values for what is that nitrogen oxides as it is in english and nitrogen oxide only then it needs to be implemented what other means there are other shoals what are what are they what what are they i mean you got there the dirtiest air in germany so why not ban diesel engines that would seem to be the the easiest the best solution for you. well the main problem is that it is extremely difficult to administer and to enforce a ban on diesel cars i mean first of all i mean there are a couple of. streets that are actually affected that d

mr. corseau. >> good morning, commissioners, happy valentine's day. finance and planning here with the next item. which is continuation and potentially action on the department's budget submittal for this year. i have a short slide show and happy to answer any questions you may have. >> first want to highlight some of the documentation provided you in your packets. you should have received a budget book for the department, along with an outline of enhancement requests, i'll detail shortly later. in addition, a few pages paper clipped together an update to the book. they deal with some of the department revenues and i'll highlight those changes, a replacement to the corresponding pages previously provided. brief overview of the items i wanted to discuss. brief review of the instructions and timelines that we have highlighted at previous commission meetings. some of the assumptions and changes included in the budget before you, update on the department's budget committee that was reconvened in the current year at overview of what i guess technically the

caller: good morning, mr. mitchell, good luck with your myeloma. guest: thank you. caller: easy question, last year i was diagnosed with psoriasis, i'm on a drug called cosentyx, a self-injecting pen. i'm paying virtually nothing for it right now because my husband's health care is paying for it. they also pick up, the drug company picks up part of the premium that i would normally pay. the program is only good for from what i understand, two years and what my question for you is what is going to happen when the two years is up? right now i take two of those pens a month, each pen is $7500. so two is $15,000, which is half of my annual income. is there any -- what do they do? how does that work? guest: well, further reflection of the fact that drug companies control the prices. they set the prices really high, give you discount for copayment, everybody else, you, me, still paying for the premiums either through our employer or through our taxes. and by doing this, they keep you in their control and keep the price high. that is why we are focused on taking steps to l

trial, and i think the chances very much that mr netanyahu think the chances very much that mr neta nyahu is goodtinue. i think we can really set that aside toa think we can really set that aside to a degree, there are real problems now, in that israeli — iranians relationship. and israel is determined, it says, to stop the iranians setting up the sort of bases that could threaten israel. we may see them striking in syria or more times, we have seen the israelis want a tax several times in recent yea rs. israelis want a tax several times in recent years. but they might feel as a result of the drawn from last week, but they need to act with more caution. politicians from across zimbabwe havejoined mourners for a memorial service to honour the late veteran opposition leader, morgan tsvangirai, who died of cancer four days ago. his body was flown to zimbabwe from south africa yesterday. mr tsvangirai is being given a state—paid funeral. many of his supporters say he should have been awarded the status of national hero, which would have seen him buried at the heroes' shrine in the capital. they descr

. >> this is linda in ohio, good morning. >> morning mr. mitchell, good luck to you with your illness. i wish you the best. easy question. last i was diagnosed with psoriasis which i didn't even know is an autoimmune issue so i'm on a drug which is a self injecting drug and i'm paying virtually nothing for it because my husband's healthcare is paying for it and they also pick up the drug company picks up part of the premium that i would normally pay. the program is only good for two years. my question for you what's going to happen when the two years is up? right now i take two of those a month and each pen is $7500. period two is $15000 which is half of my annual income. what do they do? how does that work request. >> is a further reflection of the fact that the drug companies control the prices. they set the price really high and they give you a discount for your copayment part of it, but everybody else, all of us, you, me are still paying for the premium through our employer or our taxes. by doing this they keep you in their control that'

mrs. devos' recommendation is a good one? rep. goodlatte: we will consider that. we do think that communities need to make sure that they're doing everything to keep their schools secure. when i visit schools around my congressional district, i know

good humor and grace. [applause] dear to my heart, mrs. obama also continues to be a devoted champion of the arts, and we need the arts so much in every day in our lives. as first lady, she helped give african-american artists a greater presence on the walls of the white house, a commitment of her selection of amy sherald to paint her portrait reflects and one that we had the smithsonian here are so proud to share. now it is my honor and privilege to invite mrs. obama and amy sherald to unveil the portrait. [applause] [applause] [cheers and applause] mrs. obama: good morning, everyone. let's just start by saying wow again. let's just take a minute. it is amazing. wow. how are you all doing? it is a pleasure and an honor to be here in this beautiful museum today. let me first think the secretary and kim sajet for their remarks and outstanding leadership and everything they have done to support us, to support the arts over these many years. i also want to recognize all of our dear friends and colleagues and our team members and family who ar

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good humor and grace. [applause] dear to my heart, mrs. obama also continues to be a devoted champion of the arts, and we everyhe arts so much in day in our lives. as first lady, she helped give african-american artists a greater presence on the walls of the white house, a commitment of her selection of amy sherald to paint her portrait reflects and one that we had the smithsonian here are so proud to share. now it is my honor and privilege to invite mrs. obama and amy sherald to unveil the portrait. [applause] [applause] [cheers and applause] mrs. obama: good morning, everyone. let's just start by saying wow again. let's just take a minute. it is amazing. wow. how are you all doing? it is a pleasure and an honor tp e -- to be here in this beautiful museum today. let me first think the secretary et for their remarks and outstanding leadership and everything they have done to support us, to support the arts over these many years. i also want to recognize all of our dear friends and colleagues and our team members and family who are here wit

good evening, mr. president. president trump: good evening. judge jeanine: we are delighted to have you on "justice" tonight in is so much breaking news. the democrat memo just came out. of course, you called the memo a legal bust on twitter and you called adam schiff a phoney. what do you take exception to in the memo. president trump: all you do is see adam schiff, he has a meeting, he leaves the meeting, edcalls up reporters and all of a sudden they have news, you are not supposed to do that. it's probably illegal to do it. he'll have a committee meeting and leak all sorts of information. he's a bad guy. but the memo was a nothing. it confirmed basically if you look at it -- i watched miss herridge on your show, and that was a confirmation if you call it the republican memo or nunes memo, it was nothing but a confirmation. a lot of bad things happened on the other side. not on this side, but the other side. somebody should look into it. what they did is really fraudulent and somebody should be looking into that. by somebody, i'm talking abo

mr. shah: good afternoon, everyone. i want to start with a statement, then we'll take your questions. our normal policy, consistent with the policies of past administrations, is to not comment on background checks and security clearances. given the unusual nature of these circumstances, when a number of false reports floating around, we wanted to try to explain as best we can within our security limitations how the background investigation process works and then talk a little bit about rob porter and how the -- how his situation fits within that process. background investigation process is a process for evaluating allegations about a white house staffer's conduct prior to joining the white house. it's run by the federal law enforcement and intelligence communities. it's used throughout the u.s. government, it's thorough, it's complex, and it takes time. it takes time because we want to get it right. it's also costly but it's absolutely worth it. over the course of any investigation, some information may arise that seems troubling or complicated and requires additional investigating. i

tease in eastern guta there were in fact for one day two secretaries general in new york mr good terrorists his preterist says a bang ki-moon had also been invited to speak he also expressed concern at the continued bloodshed in the syrian situation you'd really have must come to an end it's going to be a seventh year in for a come march tenth even the seventh year of doing daughter seven years a sore many civilian population have been killed there is now a new peace effort the ambassador of sweden hopes to bring a new draft resolution to a vote in the council in the coming days we're asking for a cessation of hostilities for thirty days throughout syria throughout syria forty or forty eight hours after that access for weekly u.n. humanitarian and convoys aid aid convoys to. areas in need particularly urgent busy areas russia had blocked previous efforts to get a resolution on a cease fire in eastern guta facing mounting criticism and bassa vasoline the benzine has now himself called for a security council meeting on the situation on thursday the charter which the un has actually been discu

mr. stevens. >> good afternoon. members of the public. this is a special moment in every academic year when we are able to welcome our certified national board teachers for commendation. it is the pinnacle in the teaching profession. the equivalent of earning a masters degree. it is that much work. they are recertifying. they have been through the process two times successfully. and typically the case that each year, we invite a large group of folks who are earning certifications for the first time. a year ago, i described to you because of changes to the board certification process, that we will be acknowledging our recertified teachers. we had a smaller number last year. this year again, we are acknowledging the recertifying teachers in front of the year and will host a separate ceremony for the larger number of first time certified teachers this year. we have 47 teachers in the district who have earned national board certification. we would like you to keep in mind, we will keep the teachers to the cultural center down the street and w