as mentioned, i'm sarah graham. i'm with strategic economic for an urban economics consulting firm located in berkeley. and i'm going to be going over the findings from our forthcoming report of state of the retail sector, challenges and opportunities for san francisco's neighbourhood commercial districts. and you've no doubt seen the headlines of the current challenges that the retail second is to is facing and these concerns about how national retail trends can impact us here in san francisco were one of the motivating issues that -- that led to this study. so other motivating issues are about the specific challenges faced by local businesses and how businesses and n.c.d.s may need to adapt to remain competitive in the change retail environment. so to explore these issues, we have prepared a study that includes three issue briefs and a related executive summary. i think you may have the executive summary in front of you today. but the report is forthcoming later this month. the focus of the study, it looked at the

sarah graham from strategic economics. >> supervisor fewer: hi. >> so what we're referring to there is new requirements for ground floor retail, as you describe some of the corridors or districts might be rather large or several blocks long and requiring ground floor retail on every piece of that corridor might be too difuse, so there might be places in a district that are more strong locations for our retail, and perhaps retail could be required in those locations. but in other locations that may be weaker will not be appropriate locations for new retail. >> supervisor fewer: okay. >> does that explain it? >> supervisor fewer: yeah. >> okay. >> supervisor fewer: got it. and then i have another question for oewd, when you said you help with relocation in my businesses, in my district where small businesses have been there for 30 or 40 years, and now there's a new landlord, and the landlord wants to jack up the rent five times to what they're paying, and they have to relocate, but these are stores that are actually on -- it's such a fine line to making it every month, i'm wondering, so

it goes to the nephew by marriage, george mason graham, son of george graham, sarah's nephew. that being said, many sons and theirons used grandfather's legacy in positive and negative ways. one of george mason's grandsons followed his grandfathers footsteps into politics and helped author the fugitive slave act. if you are familiar with the film 12 years a slave, that's the law that made that possible. worked onay mason that law as part of his grandfathers legacy. but a verysitive, interesting legacy george mason left behind. other grandsons were involved in politics as well. some more positive things, helped shape government thereafter. the very interesting to see way george mason's life has been used, his legacy has been used. , it is gunston hall important to know the george mason owned people. he also opened the door for us to have the conversation 250 years later. he opened the door for us to expand to whom the declaration of rights applied. in the 18th century, it would not have applied to me. it might not have applied to you. but because today we have continued to have

. >> sean: how could you present grassley graham memo was saying, sarah, unverified russian governmenttion that hillary paid for to get a warrant to spy on an opposition party. >> grassley and graham memo basically substantiated everything nunes was saying in his own memo. >> sean: true. >> it went further it implicated them in criminal acts. this is why they want to speak to christopher steele. this is the reason why they want more information. and i tell you, this sean, in march, when the ig report comes out and hopefully we have been hearing it's going to be the first weeks of march or by mid march, i think it's going to be an explosion of information that we didn't even know. the focus on andrew mccabe, the deputy director of the fbi. former deputy director of the fbi. all of the other things that come into play with the clinton server investigation. those things will be so relevant. and they won't be able to dismiss those facts. >> sean: the fix was in, sara. the fix was. in it was rigged by comey. it was rigged by peter strzok. what are the statute of limb limitations i don't kno

. >> sean: how could you present grassley graham memo was saying, sarah, unverified russian governmenttion that hillary paid for to get a warrant to spy on an opposition party. >> grassley and graham memo basically substantiated everything nunes was saying in his own memo. >> sean: true. >> it went further it implicated them in criminal acts. this is why they want to speak to christopher steele. this is the reason why they want more information. and i tell you, this sean, in march, when the ig report comes out and hopefully we have been hearing it's going to be the first weeks of march or by mid march, i think it's going to be an explosion of information that we didn't even know. the focus on andrew mccabe, the deputy director of the fbi. former deputy director of the fbi. all of the other things that come into play with the clinton server investigation. those things will be so relevant. and they won't be able to dismiss those facts. >> sean: the fix was in, sara. the fix was. in it was rigged by comey. it was rigged by peter strzok. what are the statute of limb limitations i don't kno

sarah. >> you're welcome. >> lot of support, john. >> reverend billy graham's funeral is this friday. we know the president will attend. it's been determined he will make any remarks, eulogies or just there as a mourner and family friend? >> i'm not sure on the specifics. i do know he plans to attend there as well as head to the capital tomorrow for that stop. but in terms of specific remarks, i don't have any comment on that at this point. >> my other question is that the president's two immediate predecessors did a lot to build and expand the faith-based programs within the white house and throughout the executive branch of government. many governors followed that example. among them, your father. it has been said that this president has not followed through on that, that there is no faith-based office within the white house now. your reaction? >> look, i don't think an office is what determines the faith of the administration. i think that we have a number of people -- that's something that the president has a faith council and advisory council that regularry come to the white hous

sarah. thank you, anita. >> you're welcome. you've got a lot of support, john. >> reverend billy graham's funeral is this friday. we know the president will attend. has it been determined whether he'll make any remarks, any of the eulogies or just there as a mourner and family friender and. >> i'm not sure on the specifics. i do know he plans to attend there as well as head to the capitol tomorrow for that stop. >> the other question -- >> in terms of specific remarks, i don't have any comment on that at this point. >> my other question is that the president's two immediate predecessors did a lot to build and expand the faith-based programs within the white house and throughout the executive branch of government. many governors followed that example. one of them your father. it has been said that this president has not followed through on that, that there is no faith-based office within the white house now. your reaction? >> look, i don't think an office is what determines the faith of the administration. i think that we have a number of people -- >> [ inaudible question ] >> right. i think that's something that

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sarah. >> you are welcome. >> got a lot of support, john. >> reverend billy graham's funeral is this friday.ow the president will attend. has it been determined whether he will make any remarks? any eulogies or will he be just there as a mourner and family friend? >> i'm not sure on the specifics. i do know he plans to attend there as well as head to the capitol tomorrow for that stop. in terms of specific remarks, i don't have any comment on that at this point. >> my other question is that the president's two immediate predecessors did a lot to build and expand the faith based programs within the white house and throughout executive branch of government. many governors followed that example. and your father. it has been said that this president has not followed through on that. that there is no faith-based office within the white house now. your reactions? >> look, i don't think an office is what determines the faith of the administration. i think that we have a number. >> program. >> right. i think that's something that the president has a faith council and an advisory council that regular

sarah. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> got a lot of support, john. >> reverend billy graham's funeral is this friday. we know the president will attend. has it been determined whether he'll make any remarks, any eulogies, or will he be just there as a mourner and family friend? >> i'm not sure on the specifics. i do know he plans to attend there as well as head to the capital tomorrow for that stop. but in terms of specific remarks, i don't have any comment on that at this point. >> my other question is that the president's two immediate predecessors do a lot to build and expand the faith-based programs within the white house and throughout the executive branch of government. many governors followed that example, one of them your father. it has been said that this president has not followed through on that. that there is no faith-based office within the white house now. your reaction? >> uh, look, i don't think an office is what determines the faith of the administration. i think that we have a number of people -- right. i think that something that the president has a faith counsel and an advisory co

sarah sanders will brief in an hour. julia and peter alexander, thank you. >> indulge me. i said they were honoring the legacy of franklin graham. he was sitting with franklin graham, though they are honoring billy graham. >> that's right. we did hear from the president and it was an emotional scene there on capitol hill. peter, thank you for that. appreciate it. kushner's lawyer dismissed the stories in a statement to nbc news saying, quote, it's not uncommon for these clearance reviews to take this long in a new administration. the new clearance policy will not affect mr. kushner's ability to continue to do the very important work he has been assigned by the president. michael allen is managing director of beacon local strategies. he formerly served for republicans on the house intelligence committee. the perfect people to join me to help understand just how significant this all is in. mi michael, this question that looms over all of this. what does this really mean in terms of the extent to which jah rerd kushner can continue to do his job. he has been put in charge of brokering peace in the middle east, working on china. wi

sarah sanders left to clean up the president's remarks. >> i don't think we expect the budget deal to include specifics on immigration reform, but we want to get a tkaol done. >> reporter: late tuesday, senator lindsey graham also indicating the senate may be making progress on immigration. >> i felt really bad yesterday. i feel better today. people i think have a way forward that seems to be fair to even. we're back in the ball game now. >> reporter: this coming amid back clash from the president's chief of staff about undocumented immigrants who did not sign up for the dreamers program but would be given a path to citizenship under the proposal. >> the difference between the 1.8 million people others were too afraid to sign up, some too lazy to get off their asses but they didn't sign up. >> reporter: kelly doubling down this a closed door meeting. the president is not leaning one way or the other about releasing the democratic rebuttal alleging fbi surveillance abuses. >> this is a different memo than the first one. it is lengthier. it is different. >> it will be done in a responsible way. again, where the first one was clean relative to sources and methods, my initial thought is this is less clean. >>